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Ostr. London, British Library 12118

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12118
Publication Number O.Wilck. 38
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
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation left side lost .

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) left side lost
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Praktor Sokrates
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for poll tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Sokrates for laographia of year 11 of Domitianus, paid by Pachmpaermon, with signature of the praktor Sokrates.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1διέγραψεν Παχομπαερμὼν
2 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ἑνδεκάτου
3(ἔτους) Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργ(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) ιϛ. Σωκράτης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.
concave
1Thus has paid Pachompaermon,
2son of ?, for poll tax of the eleventh
3year of Domitianus the lord,
416 silver dr. Sokrates, tax collector, I have written.
BL_12118_S2_001
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BLostracon_12118_S1_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22550 man Pachompaermon Παχομπαερμὼν Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 11 91 CE 92 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_12118_S2_001
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BLostracon_12118_S1_00
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309405
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76617
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;38
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309405 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12118), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.