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Ostr. London, British Library 12165

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12165
Publication Number O.Wilck. 138
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 top and right

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) broken at top, only the datin clause left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sarapion 1, boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (χειρωναξίου)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content end of receipt of the reign of Hadrian, only date preserved. probably of the scribe Sarapion for the tax farmers Flavius Eutyches and Longinus Crispus.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1: cheiro() and 2. Kaisaros
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
x+1[ -?- ] χ̣ε̣ι̣ρω̣ναξίου 1ed. ] ̣ δραχμὰς δέκα δύο 2ed. δύ[ο (γίνονται)]
x+2(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ. (ἔτους) ια Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος 3ed. [Καίσαρος]
x+3τοῦ κυρίου Φαρμοῦθι η̅.

1 ed. ] ̣
2 ed. δύ[ο (γίνονται)]
3 ed. [Καίσαρος]
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- for trade tax twelve drachmas,
x+2= 12 dr. Year 11 of Hadrian Caesar
x+3the lord, Pharmouthi 8.
BL_12165_S1_001
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BL_12165_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 11 Pharmuthi 08 127 April 3 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_12165_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_12165_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309409
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76711
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;138
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309409 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12165), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.