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Ostr. London, British Library 12103

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12103
Publication Number O.Wilck. 105
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
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 purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation surface covered by white residue.

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 Palachemis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price and expenses for a statue of Trajan (time and dapane andriantos Traianou)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Bassion and Ammonas, praktores, for time and dapane andriantos Traianou, paid by Papremithes, son of Papremithes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok scribe Palachemis
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Βασσίων καὶ Ἀμμώνιος πράκτορες. διέγραψε
2Παπρεμείθης Παπρεμείθου
3ὑπὲρ τιμῆς καὶ δαπανήματος ἀνδριάντος Τραιανοῦ
4δραχμὰς δύο (τετρώβολον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον).
5(ἔτους) ιη Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου Καίσαρος
6τοῦ κυρίου Χοίακ ι.
convex
1Bassion and Ammonios, tax collectors. Thus has paid
2Papremithes, son of Papremithes,
3for the price and expenses for a statue of Trajan
4two drachmas, 4 ob., = 2 dr. 4 ob.
5Year 18 of Trajanus Optimus Caesar
6the lord, Choiak 10.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4555 man Ammonas praktor Ἀμμωνᾶς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 20 Choiak 10 116 December 6 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309403
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76680
Papyri.info dbddp/o.wilck;;105
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309403 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12103), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.