Ostr. London, British Library 13971 (5790q)
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 13971 (5790q) |
| Publication Number |
O.Wilck. 86 |
| 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 |
joined of three fragments, parts still missing |
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) |
joined of three fragments, part in the middle missing |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of epiteretes Lukios Aurelios |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
8 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for poll tax (laographia) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt of the supervisor (epiteretes) Lucius Aurelius for laographia of year 16 of Trajan, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis and Tachomtbekis (archive), with signature of Lucius Aurelius. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
ok. change of hands in l. 7 doubtful, rahter written by the same hand at another time. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | διέγραψεν
Παχνοῦβις Φανώφεως
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2 | | μητρὸς
Ταχομτβήκιος ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρ(αφίας)
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3 | | τοῦ ιϛ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἀργ(υρίου)
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4 | | δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. (ἔτους) ιϛ Τραιανοῦ |
5 | | τοῦ κυρίου Μεχὶρ ̣ ̣ διὰ |
6 | | Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου. |
7 | | Φαμενὼθ ϛ̅ τὰς λοιπὰς
δραχμὰς ἐννέα |
8 | | (γίνονται) ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
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1 | | Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis |
2 | | and the mother Tachomtbekis, for poll tax |
3 | | of year 16 of Trajan the lord, silver |
4 | | drachmas eight, = 8 dr. Year 16 of Trajan |
5 | | the lord, Mechir ?, through |
6 | | Lucius Aurelius. |
7 | | Phamenoth 6, the remaining nine drachmas, |
8 | | = in total 17 dr.
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Trajan |
16 |
Mecheir |
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113 January CE 113 February CE |
date in text; |
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Literature
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Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (48)
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Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (43-46)
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Sijpesteijn, Piet & Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte II mit Nachtrag von P. J. Sijpesteijn (1970). (431)
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Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (24, no. 86.)
| DatasetID |
309414 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
76664 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.wilck;;86 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309414 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13971 (5790q)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
