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Ostr. London, BM 12485

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, BM 12485
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 19
Current Location	London, British Museum
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:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 68 and 68
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 probably of Pelaias, son of Ammonios
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for trade tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pelaias Ammoniou, scribe
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for cheironaxion of the year 14 of Nero, paid by Melas, son of Patos.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok. hand of Pelaias, s. of Ammonios?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28475	man	Melas, son of Patos	Μέλας Πατῶτος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nero	14	Epeiph	26	68 July 19 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

• Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (46)
• Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (6, no. 19.)

 

DatasetID	309411
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76600
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;19
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309411 (= Ostr. London, BM 12485), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.