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Ostr. London, British Library 12135

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12135
Publication Number O.Wilck. 100
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 broken at lower right corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Palachemis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
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 for time and dapanes andriantos Traianou, paid by Petorzmethis, son Pachompaonnophris and Tisatis; a second payment is added at the end by taxpayer Hatpechnoubis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1 name: originally Pachompaonnophris was written. maybe the first element (Pachom) was cancelled with vertical signs looking like phi. corr. l. 7 Hatpechnoubis adelphos!
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψε Πετορζμῆθις Παχομ-1ed. Φ̣αχομφ[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]; perhaps 'Pachom' was cancelled with signs looking like phi?
2παοννώφρεως μητρὸς Τισᾶτις
3ὑπὲρ τιμῆς καὶ δαπανήματος ἀνδριάντος Τραιανοῦ
4δραχμὰς δύο (τετρώβολον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον).
5(ἔτους) ιη Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου Καίσαρος
6vac. τοῦ κυρίου -?-
7καὶ Ἀτπεχνοῦβις ἀδελ(φὸς)? 2ed. mit BL: (hand 2) καὶ Ἀτπεχνοῦβις ἀ[πέσχον(?)]
8δραχμὰς δύο (τετρώβολον) ̣ ̣

1 ed. Φ̣αχομφ[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]; perhaps 'Pachom' was cancelled with signs looking like phi?
2 ed. mit BL: (hand 2) καὶ Ἀτπεχνοῦβις ἀ[πέσχον(?)]
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Pachom-
2paonnophris and the mother Tisatis,
3for the price and expenxes for a statue of Traian
4two drachmas 4 ob., = 2 dr. 4 ob.
5Year 18 of Traianus Optimus Caesar
6the lord. ---?
7and Hatpechnoubis (his brother?) ---
8two drachmas, 4 ob. ---
BL_12135_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22560 man Hatpechnoubis, brother of Petorzmethis? Ἀτπεχνοῦβις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 18 114 CE 115 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_12135_S1_001
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BL_12135_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309406
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76675
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;100
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309406 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12135), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.