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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1863

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1863
Publication Number	O.Bodl. II 1067
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
Dating	between 177 and 178
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of scribe Serenos
Comments on Text Layout	lines alligned to left margin
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	49
Column Height (in mm)	45
Line Distance	49+y x 45

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for cheironaxion given out by the scribe Serenos for unknown collectors.
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

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1	ιη (ἔτους) Αὐρηλίων Ἀ̣ντωνίνου
2	καὶ Λουκίου Κομμόδου
3	Καισάρων τῶν̣ κ̣υρίων ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
4	λ̅. διέγραψεν Ἀμμών̣ιος Ἡρα ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ μη(τρὸς)
5	Θινζ̣μή̣θιος ὑπὲρ χι̣ρω(ναξίου) ιη (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) ̣ ̣ διὰ
6	Σερή̣νου βοηθ̣οῦ.

convex

1	Year 18 of Aurelius Antoninus
2	and Lucius Aurelius Commodus
3	Caesare the lords, (month)
4	30. Thus has paid Ammonios, son of Hera? and his mother
5	Thinzmethis for trade tax of year 18, ? dr. through
6	Serenus, assistant.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12575	man	Ammonios, son of Sarapion and Thinzmethis	Αμμωνιος Σεραπίωνος Θινζμήτιος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Commodus	18	[//]	30	177 CE 178 CE	date in text;

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Literature

Tait, John Gavin & Préaux, Claire, Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Vol. II. Ostraca of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. (1955). (no. 1067)

DatasetID	309029
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	71754
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;2;1067
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309029 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1863), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.