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Ostr. London, British Library 13975 (5790c)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13975 (5790c)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 94
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 the scribe/praktor Palachemis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price and expenses for a statue of Trajan (time and dapane andriantos Traianou)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Bassion and Ammonas for time and dapane andriantos Traianou, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis (archive).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text text ok. hand of Palachemis not previously identified
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Βασσίων καὶ Ἀμμώνιος. Παχνοῦβις Φανώφεως
2ὑπὲρ τιμῆς καὶ δαπάνης ἀνδριάντος Τραιανοῦ
3δραχμὰς δύο (τετρώβολον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) ιη Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου
4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Χοίακ θ.
convex
1Bassion and Ammonios. (Thus has paid) Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis,
2for the price and expenses for a statue of Trajan
3two drachmas 4 ob., = 2 dr. 4 ob. Year 18 of Trajanus Optimus
4Caesar the lord, Choiak 9.
BL_13975_S1_001
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BL_13975_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4555 man Ammonas praktor Ἀμμωνᾶς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 18 Choiak 09 114 December 5 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_13975_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_13975_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309418
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76672
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;94
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309418 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13975 (5790c)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.