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Ostr. London, British Library 14024

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14024
Publication Number O.Wilck. 59
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 99 and 100
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at top
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive, stylish hand of praktor Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Hermogenes for laographia of year 3 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of Phanophis, grandson of Thrakidas, with signature of praktor Hermogenes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. edition l. 1 is not existant; traces, but no writing. text starts with l. 2, lines renumbered
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἁρπαῆσις Φενώφεος Θρακίδας 1ed. l. 1 [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]: no writing
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας γ (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 2 l. Τραιανοῦ
3τοῦ κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) θ.
4Ἑρμογένης.

1 ed. l. 1 [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]: no writing
2 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1(Thus has paid) Harpaesis, son of Phenophis, alias Thrakidas,
2for poll tax of year 3 of Trajan
3the lord, on account, 9 dr.
4Hermogenes.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12605 man Harpaesis, son of Phanopis, (grandson of Thrakid) Ἁρπαῆσις Φανώφεος (Θρακίδ(ου)? Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 03 99 CE 100 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 308990
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76637
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;59
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308990 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14024), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.