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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1932

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1932
Publication Number O.Bodl. I 125
Current Location Oxford Ashmolean Museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: low
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 of Object November 12 t.a.q.
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation slightly faded

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) slightly faded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting ptolemaic documentary
Comments on Text Layout lower margin empty
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 100
Column Height (in mm) 48
Line Distance 100 x 48

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for beer tax (telos zytheras)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Didymos and his assitants have received beer tax from Horos, his wife and son.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: low)
Comments on Text said to be from Elephantine; erroneously attributed to Thebes: cf. Bingen, O.Bodl. III, S. XIII.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender Man has paid beer tax for himself, his wife and son.
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Δίδυμος καὶ οἱ παρʼ ἀτοῦ 1l. αὐτοῦ τελοι 2 ed. l. τελώνου. Bingen: Τέλει
2ἐχω 3l. ἔχομεν παρὰ Ὡρος 4l. Ὥρου καὶ τὴν 5l. τῆς γυναι-
3κα 6l. γυναι|κὸς καὶ τον ὑον 7l. τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ τὸ 8corr. ex αυτοτ
4τέλος τῆς ζυτηρᾶς.
5(ἔτους) μθ Φαῶφι κα.

1 l. αὐτοῦ
2 ed. l. τελώνου. Bingen: Τέλει
3 l. ἔχομεν
4 l. Ὥρου
5 l. τῆς
6 l. γυναι|κὸς
7 l. τοῦ υἱοῦ
8 corr. ex αυτοτ
convex
1Didymos and his assistants to Teles?.
2We have received from Horos and his wife
3and his son the
4tax for beer.
5Year 49, Phaophi 21.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4532 man Didymos telones Δίδυμος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II 49 Phaophi 21 -122 November 12 BCE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309035
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 4637
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;1;125
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309035 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1932), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.