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Ostr. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Cabinet des Médailles Froehner.1701

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Cabinet des Médailles Froehner.1701
Publication Number O.Wilck. 24
Current Location Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: low
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Froehner, Wilhelm
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Karnak
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution bequest
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1925 and 1925
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Froehner, Wilhelm
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object May 2
Dating between 73 and 73
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Melanthis praktor: text and subscript of the same hand
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πατεύρρις Παχνούβιος
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας πέμπτου ἔτους
3Οὐεσπασειανοῦ 1 l. Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4Παχὼν ζ̅ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα
5ἓξ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ. Μελάνθις ἔγραψα.

1 l. Οὐεσπασιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Pateuris, son of Pachnoubis,
2for poll tax of the fifth year
3of Vespasian the lord,
4Pachon 7, sixteen silver drachmas,
5= 16 dr. I, Melanthis, have written.
Paris_BibN_Froehner.17
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Paris_BibN_Froehner.17
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13140 man Melanthis (son of Hermodotos) praktor Μελανθις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Vespasian 05 Pachons 07 73 May 2 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Paris_BibN_Froehner.17
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Paris_BibN_Froehner.17
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309391
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76604
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;24
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309391 (= Ostr. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Cabinet des Médailles Froehner.1701), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.