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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2888

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2888
Publication Number O.Bodl. II 450
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 of Object August 23
Dating between 19 and 19
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
State of Preservation Upper right corner broken away (?)

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) upper right corner broken off
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand or praktor Pachompretis, son of Pelaias
Comments on Text Layout lower third of sherd empty
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 75
Column Height (in mm) 54
Line Distance 75 x 54

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content tax receipt for laographia
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. argyriou archaiou
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διαγεγράφηκεν
2Πετορζμήθιος 1 l. Πετορζμῆθις Μακ̣ο̣ῦ̣
3ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογραφίας τοῦ πέμ̣-
4του 2 l. πέμπ|του(ἔτους) Τιβερίου Καίσαρος
5Σεβαστοῦ Μεσορὴι3l. Μεσορὴ λ̅
6ἀργυρίου ἀρχαίου (δραχμὰς) ιϛ.

1 l. Πετορζμῆθις
2 l. πέμπ|του
3 l. Μεσορὴ
convex
1Thus has paid
2Petorzmethis, son of Makas?
3for laographia of the fifth
4year of Tiberius Caesar
5Augustus, Mesore 30,
616 old silver (drachmas).
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12890 man Petorzmethis Mak--- Πετορζμηθις Μακου Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 05 Mesore 30 19 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309061
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 71151
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bodl;2;450
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309061 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 2888), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.