Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.227
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.227 |
| Publication Number |
O.Ashm. Shelton 16 (= O.Wilck. 111) |
| 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] |
| Type of Discovery |
find (unspecified)
Certainty: |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Raifé, Alfonse
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating of Object |
November 12, terminus ante quem |
| Dating |
between 118 and 118 |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
broken in three joining pieces |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
convex (outside) |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
Complete. |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, cursive hand of praktor Sanmus |
| Comments on Text Layout |
lower third of sherd is empty. |
| |
recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
7 |
|
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
|
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
105 |
|
| Column Height (in mm) |
65 |
|
| Line Distance |
105 x 65 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
tax receipt for the price of state dates |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
|
| Summary of Content |
receipt of praktor Sanmus for time demosiou phoinikos.
the profession or status designation diakon is mentioned; its exact meaning at the time is not known. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
ok |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
03 |
Hathyr |
16 |
118 November 12 CE |
date in text, day corrected; |
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Literature
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Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (48)
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Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J. & Kruit, Nico & Verhoogt, A.M.F.W., BL 9: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band IX (1995). (408)
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Shelton, John C., Greek Ostraca in the Ashmolean Museum from Oxyrhynchus and other sites edited with translations and notes by John C. Shelton (1988). (no. 16)
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Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 111)
| DatasetID |
309147 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
70568 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.ashm.shelt;;16 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309147 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.227), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
