Ostr. London, British Library 5818

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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Salt, Henry Certainty:
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 of Ammonios, assistant of praktores Papremithes and Bienchis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios scribe of Papremithes and Bienchis praktores
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Papremithes and bienchis, praktores argyrikon of Elephantine, through the assistant Ammonios, for merismos of year 10 of Anoninus, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Thinpelaia; belongs to the archive of Patsibtis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Παπρεμίθης καὶ Βιῆνχις πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν
2	Ἐλεφαντίνης διʼ Ἀμμωνίου βοηθοῦ.
3	διέγραψεν Πατσίβτις Πετορζμήθιος
4	μητρὸς Θινπελέας μερισμὸν
5	ι (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
6	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς τέσσαρες
7	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ Θὼθ η̅.

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1	Papremithes and Bienchis, collectors of money taxes
2	at Elephantine, through Ammonios, assistant.
3	Thus has paid Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis
4	and the mother Thinpelaia, for the contribution
5	of year 10 of Antoninus Caesar
6	the lord four drachmas,
7	= 4 dr., Thoth 8.

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Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12805	man	Ammonios scribe of Papremithes and Bienchis praktores	Ammonios	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	10	Thoth	08	146 September 5 CE	date in text;

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Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (50)
Boswinkel, Ernst & Clarysse, Willy & Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, BL 7: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band VII (1986). (300)
Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine III: Anmerkungen zu O.Bankes und verwandten Texten. (221-226)
Sijpesteijn, Piet & Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte II mit Nachtrag von P. J. Sijpesteijn (1970). (434)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (63, no. 208.)

DatasetID	309005
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76776
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;208
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309005 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5818), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.