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Ostr. London, British Library 12116

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12116
Publication Number O.Wilck. 162
Current Location London, British Library
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
Dating between 136 and
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 praktor Psanmous
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Praktor Psanmous for merismos potamophylakidos, paid by Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ψανμοὺς πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν
2Ζμενπὼς Πετορζμήθεως
3μητρὸς Τισᾶτις ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ποταμο-
4φυλακίδος κ (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰν (δραχμὴν) α (ὀβολοὺς) γ (ἡμιωβέλιον). (ἔτους) κ
5Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
6τοῦ κυρίου Τῦβι κ̅γ̅.
convex
1Psanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid
2Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis
3and the mother Tisatis, for the contribution for river
4police boats of year 20, 1 dr. 3,5 ob. brutto. Year 20
5of Hadrian Caesar
6the lord, Tybi 23.
BL_12116_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4331 man Psanmous praktor Ψανμοῦς pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 20 Tybi 23 136 January 19 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_12116_S1_001
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BL_12116_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309404
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76732
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;162
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309404 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12116), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.