Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1854
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1854 |
| Publication Number |
O.Bodl. II 2225 descr. |
| Current Location |
Oxford Ashmolean Museum |
| Publication Status |
partly 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 according to identification of the scribe |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
broken at right and bottom |
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 right and bottom |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of the scribe Pachompsachis |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Line Lenght (in mm) |
40 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
30 |
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| Line Distance |
40+y x 30+y |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for unidentified tax |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt, written and given out by the scribe Pachompsachis, presumably in y. 4 Antoninus, cf. P.Bingen 93.
the tax could either be laographia or cheironaxion. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
new edition, date according to O.Bingen 93, reed. in ZPE 202, 2017. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Through Pachompsachis, assistant. Thus has paid|
2 | | Petorzmethis, son of ---|
3 | | and his mother Thinor--- for poll tax? of year ?,|
4 | | eight drachmas, = 8 dr. Year 4? of Antoninus|
5 | | Caesar the lord, ---
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 12740 |
man |
Pachompsachis scribe |
Παχομψᾶχις boethos |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Antoninus Pius |
04 |
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141 CE |
date incertain. formula of receipt and identification of the scribe Pachompsachis, cf. P.Bingen 93, reed. R. Duttenhöfer ZPE 202, 2017, p. 235-236. probably year 4 of Antoninus; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309021 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
72858 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.bodl;2;2225 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309021 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1854), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
