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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2749

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2749
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 1166
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 24 and 24
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation ink faded and abraded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, handwriting not known
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 110
Column Height (in mm) 70
Line Distance 110 x 70

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for date palms (akrodrya)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content bank receipt of Hermias the assistant banker, for tax on palm trees, paid by Senaros ---, in year 10 ob Tiberius. Prescript is unclear.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 5: akrod(ryon). many incertain readings; prescript not clear
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender Frau als Steuerzahlerin für Dattelpalmen
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Γαίου Ἰουλίου, θεοῦ
2Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαρος ἀπελευθέρου Σωκ? κρ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρο̣υ̣ ὑπὲρ Ἀ̣νδρο̣μ̣άχου.
4διαγέγ̣ραφε Σε̣ναρω̣ς α ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
5ἀκροδρύων 1ed. ̣ ̣ρ ̣δ( ) ἐνάτου (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δ̣ύο
6τετρώβολον (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) ι Τι̣β̣ε̣ρ̣ί̣ο̣υ̣
7Καί̣σ̣α̣ρος Σεβ̣α̣σ̣τ̣ο̣ῦ Π̣α̣χ̣ὼ̣ν ̣.

1 ed. ̣ ̣ρ ̣δ( )
convex
1Hermias, the clerk of Gaius Iulius freedman of divus
2Augustus Caesar, --- of Sokrates?
3and Alexandros, for Andromachos.
4Thus has paid Senaros ---
5for palm trees of the nineth year two drachmas
6four obols, = 2 dr 4 ob. Year 10 of Tiberius
7Caesar Augustus, Pachon ?.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12860 man Alexandros, , banker Alexander,banker Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 10 Pachons [//] 24 April 26 CE May 25 date in text, day unknown;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309057
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 71850
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;1166
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309057 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2749), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.