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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1537

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1537
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 453
Current Location Oxford Ashmolean Museum
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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at lower left corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive hand of Sokrates praktor
Comments on Text Layout empty below receipt
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60
Column Height (in mm) 45
Line Distance 60x45

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of the practor Sokrates for laographia, written and signed by praktor.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 2 und 5.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1δι̣έγραψε
2Πατ̣χναῦς 1ed. Πατ̣χνοῦς Πετεψά̣ι̣τος
3ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ιβ (ἔτους)
4Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
5ἄ̣λ̣λ̣ας (δραχμὰς) δ. πληρ? 2ed. δ̣ρ̣α̣χ̣(μὰς) δέ̣κα̣ . . Σωκρ̣ά̣τη̣ς
6πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 ed. Πατ̣χνοῦς
2 ed. δ̣ρ̣α̣χ̣(μὰς) δέ̣κα̣ .
convex
1Thus has paid
2Patchnaus, son of Petepsais,
3for poll tax of year 12
4of Domitian the lord
5further 4 dr. complete(?). Sokrates,
6praktor, I have written.
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12720 man Patchnaus, son of Petepsais Patchnaus Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 12 92 CE 93 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
Reserved Copyright
Oxford_Ashm_Gr.Inscr.1
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309016
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 71154
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;453
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309016 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1537), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.