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Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 55

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cambridge, Fitzwilliam-Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 55
Publication Number SB XX 15059
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 between 100 and 200
Criteria for Dating paleography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and top

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 top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65
Column Height (in mm) 48
Line Distance x+65 x x+48

 

Text Content

Modern Title Tax receipt (for the price of public dates?)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Fragmentary receipt, perhaps for time demosiou phoinikos (?).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text text restoration as proposed by Shelton in ed.pr. p. 236. correction: perhaps year 4 of Antoninus? RD
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1Αντωνίνου? Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
x+2ὀνόμ(ατος) ΝΝ ἀπὸ (δραχμῶν) ϙζ τὸ καθῆ-
x+3κον μέρος δραχ(μας) τεσσεράκοντα ὀκτὼ
x+4τριώβ(ολον), (γίν.) (δρ.) μ]η (τριώβολον). (ἔτους) ι̣δ
x+5Αντωνίνου? Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Φαῶφι κ̅ζ̅.
convex
x - - - - - - - - - - - - (for the harvest of year ?)
x+1of Antoninus Caesar the lord
x+2(on account of NN) of the total of 97 drachmai the portion
x+3due to him, forty eight drachmas
x+4three obols, = 48 dr. 3 ob. Year 14
x+5of Antoninus? Caesar the lord, Phaophi 27.
Cambridge_FM_GR.P.55_S
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GR.P.55_S1_002
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GR.P.55_S2_001
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Cambridge_FM_GR.P.55_S
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 14 Phaophi 27 151 October 24 CE date in text; emperor incertain; alternative date 129. (year uncertain: perhaps year 4 = 140? RD);

 

Pictures

Cambridge_FM_GR.P.55_S
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GR.P.55_S1_002
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GR.P.55_S2_001
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Cambridge_FM_GR.P.55_S
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309084
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 23871
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;20;15059
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309084 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum GR. P. 55), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.