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Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 54

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cambridge, Fitzwilliam-Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 54
Publication Number SB XX 15058
Current Location Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Gillespie, Robert Winton
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object 144-07-25
Dating between 144 and 144
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) broken at right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, name of scribe unknown, same hand as in O.München AS 395
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65
Column Height (in mm) 30
Line Distance 65+y x 30

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Peteuris, son of Pachompaourses for an unknown tax (pentalik?), paid by Kalasiris, for the month Epeiph of year 7 of Antoninus; with subscript of the scribe.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. collectors titel l. 1-2: restored parallel to O.München SMÄK ÄS 395a* (ined.) RD
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πετεῦρις Παχομπαουρ̣σήους̣ ἐπιτηρητὴς
2πενταηκοστῆς 1or: πεντ(ηκοστῆς) λιμ(ένος). ed. πενταλικ?. διέγραψεν Καλασεῖρις -?-
3μηνὸς Ἐπεὶφ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ζ (ἔτους) Ἀν̣τωνείνου
4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Μεσορὴ α. -?- NN
5ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα μὴ̣ ε̣ἰ̣δό̣τ̣ο̣ς̣.

1 or: πεντ(ηκοστῆς) λιμ(ένος). ed. πενταλικ?
convex
1Peteuris, son of Pachompaourses, supervisor of the
22% tax (of the harbour). Thus has paid Kalasiris ---
3for the month Epeiph of the present year 7 of Antoninus
4Caesar the lord, Mesore 1. NN,
5I wrote for him, as he is illiterate.
Cambridge_FM_GR.P.54_S
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GR.P.54_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17310 man Kalasiris, son of ? Καλασεῖρις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 07 Mesore 01 144 July 25 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Cambridge_FM_GR.P.54_S
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GR.P.54_S1_002
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GR.P.54_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309083
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 23870
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;20;15058
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309083 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 54), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.