Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.17

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.17
Publication Number	O.Ashm. 17
Current Location	Oxford Ashmolean Museum
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine / Syene () [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 Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	September 13, terminus ante quem
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at lower right corner

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 lower right corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	cursive, documentary, 1st hand of an unknown scribe, large, irregular, practiced 2nd hand regular, practiced, orthography weak: diplography of letters.
Comments on Text Layout	1st hand starts his lines along the left margin. 2nd hand leaves a blank space before the subscript, which is running upwards along the bottom margin of the sherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	85
Column Height (in mm)	60
Line Distance	85 x 60

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakitikon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Anonymus
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of the epiteretes Antiochos Kassianos. Petorzmethis, son of Pueris and the mother Tisatis pays for laographia of the thirteenth year of Hadrian seventeen drachmai, half obol, for desmophylakia half obol, total drachmai seventeen and one obol. Signature of the epiteretes Antiochos Kassianos.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	date in text corrected in l. 5 and 8: from Thoth 8 to Thoth 15.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Ἀν̣τ̣ίο̣χος Κασια̣νὸς κ̣α̣ὶ ο̣ἱ
2	σὺ̣ν̣ αὐτῷ ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψε
3	Πετορζμῆθις Πο̣υήρεως μητρὸς Τισάτιος
4	λαoγραφίας ιγ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δέ̣κα ἑπτα (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσμοφυλακίας (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).
5	(ἔτους) ιδ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Θὼθ ι̅ε̅¹η prev. ed.
6	Ἀντείοχος Κασιανὸς σεσημείωμαι. δραχμὰς δέκα ἑππτὰ²l. ἑπτὰ
7	ὀβολὸν α̅ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). ιδ (ἔτους) Ἁ̣δριανοῦ
8	τοῦ κυρίου Θὼθ ιε³η prev. ed.

¹ η prev. ed.
² l. ἑπτὰ
³ η prev. ed.

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1	Antiochos Kasianos and his associate
2	supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid
3	Petorzmethis, son of Poueris and his mother Tisatis,
4	for poll tax of year 13 seventeen drachmas and a half obol, for prison guards a half obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob.
5	Year 14 of Hadrianus the lord, Thoth 15.
6	(hand 2) Antiochos Kasianos, I have signed (for) seventeen drachmai
7	1 obol, total 17 dr. 1 ob. Year 14 of Hadrianus
8	the Lord, Thoth 15.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12450	man	Antiochos Kassianos epiteretes	Antiochos Kasianos epiteretes	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	14	Thoth	15	129 September 12 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	309152
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	70466
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.ashm;;17
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309152 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.17), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.