Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2703
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2703 |
| Publication Number |
O.Bodl. II 456 |
| Current Location |
Oxford Ashmolean Museum |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| 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 |
collector and scribe mentioned |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
broken at left and bottom, also a bit of teh right upper corner is missing |
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) |
left and bottom missing |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of Palachemis scribe |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for poll tax (laographia) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt of Didymion praktor through Palachemis the scribe. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
corr. supplies l. 2-4; date: year 5 of Hadrian supplied, because of the formula for Didymion with Palachemis occurs only in that year. (Name of tax payer also in OGL 1894) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Didymion, tax collector, through Palachemis. Thus has paid Petorzmethis |
2 | | the elder, son of Phanophis and the mother Senbienchis, for poll tax |
3 | | of the fifth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, |
4 | | seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob. Mechir ?.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 4451 |
man |
Didymion praktor |
Διδυμίων |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
05 |
Mecheir |
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121 January 26 CE 121 February 24 CE |
date in text; year 5 of Hadrian supplied, because of the formula for Didymion with Palachemis occurs only in year 5 of Hadrian.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309055 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
71157 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.bodl;2;456 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309055 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2703), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
