Ostr. London, British Library 5810

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)	Salt, Henry 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)	Salt, Henry Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Krall, Jakob Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown; signature of Iulius Serenus
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for the price of public dates
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown) Iulius Serenus practor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Iulius Serenus, praktor argyrikon of Elephantine and Valerion and Apollonios, candidates for the praktoreia, for time demosiou phoinikos, paid by Thinesebtis (and? or daughter of?)Tisatis on account of Annius Bassus and on account of Agathodoros and Bassus, with signature of Iulius Serenus.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	woman taxpayer, filiation only with mother, or both taxpayers? men landholders?
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Ἰούλιος Σερῆνος πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης καὶ Οὐ-
2	αλεριαν ¹l. Οὐαλερίων καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἰς ² l. εἰς κλῆρον
3	πρακτορείας κ̣ (ἔτους) ἀνα̣δοθέντες. διέγραψεν Θινε-
4	σέπτις Τισᾶτις τιμῆς δημω-
5	σίου ³ l. δημο\|σίου φένικος ⁴ l. φοίνικος γενήματος ιη (ἔτους) / / ὀνόματος
6	Ἀννίου Βάσσου (δραχμὴν) α (πεντώβολον), καὶ ὑπὲρ ὀνόματος
7	Ἀγαθωδώρου ⁵ l. Ἀγαθοδώρου καὶ Βάσσου καθʼ ἑαυτὸ̣ν̣
8	μέρος (πεντώβολον). (ἔτους) ιθ Παχὼν ε.
9	Ἰούλιος Σερῆνος συναπέσχον.

¹ l. Οὐαλερίων
² l. εἰς
³ l. δημο|σίου
⁴ l. φοίνικος
⁵ l. Ἀγαθοδώρου

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1	Iulius Serenus, collector of money taxes of Elephantine and
2	Valerion and Apollonios, nominated as candidates
3	for the collectorship of year 20. Thus has paid Thine-
4	septis (and? or daughter of?) Tisatis for the price of public
5	dates of the harvest of year 18, on account of
6	Annius Bassus, 1 dr. 5 ob., and on account of
7	Agathodoros and Bassus, each for his own
8	share, 5 ob. Year 19, Pachon 5.
9	Iulius Serenus, I have received it (together with my collegues).

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Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22425	man	Agathodoros landholder	Αγαθωδωρου	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Commodus	19	Pachons	05	179 April 30 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	308999
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76838
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;272
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308999 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5810), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.