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Ostr. London, British Library 12159

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12159
Publication Number O.Wilck. 48
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 broken off, surface damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) left side broken off, surface damaged
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of scribe Sarapion
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for harbor guard (hormophylakia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of ---arion, son of Ariston, through Sarapion, for harbour guard (hormophylakia), paid by Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. of tax l. 3 through ZPE 195, no. 3, p. 172 f. corr
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ̣ ̣ ̣α̣ρ̣ι̣ων Ἀρίστωνος διὰ Σαραπίωνος
2βοηθ(οῦ)?. διέγραψεν Ζμενπὼς Πετορζμήθιος
3ὑπ(ὲρ) ὁρμοφυλακίας 1ed. ποταμο]φυλακί[δο]ς τοῦ β (ἔτους) Νερουᾶ
4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς τέσσαρες
5(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ (ἔτους) β Νερουᾶ τοῦ κυρίου.

1 ed. ποταμο]φυλακί[δο]ς
convex
1---arion, son of Ariston, through Sarapion.
2assistant. Thus has paid Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis,
3for the harbour guard of year 2 of Nerva
4Caesar the lord, on account, four drachmas,
5= 4 dr. Year 2 of Nerva the lord.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22885 man ---arion, son of Ariston …αριων Ἀρίστωνος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nerva 02 97 CE 98 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_12159_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309408
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76627
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;48
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309408 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12159), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.