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Ostr. London, British Library 13972 (5788e)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 13972 (5788e)
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 56
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	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 of praktor Hermogenes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for part payment of laographia of year 2 Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, on of Phanophis, grandson of Thrakidas (archive), written probably by praktor Hermogenes (not mentioned, but handwriting?), given out probably through another person (Chemtim---).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok. name of collector Chemtim-kinousis problematic
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29245	man	Chemtim-kinousis	Χε̣μτιμ ̣- κινουσις	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	02			98 CE 99 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

• Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (47)
• Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (43-46)
• Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (15, no. 56.)

 

DatasetID	309415
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76635
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;56
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309415 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13972 (5788e)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.