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Ostr. London, British Library 13978 (5790s)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13978 (5790s)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 76
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 right, l. 1-2 are preserved on frg. 14804, which was not yet joined!

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 right; l. 1-2 are preserved on frg. 14804, which was not yet joined!
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of praktor Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Hermogenes, son of Ammonas, for laographia of year 8 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son Pelaias, Paiai, mentioning part payments through an agent Bienchis; with signature of Hermogenes
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. corr. l. 1 and 2 are now complete with frag. 14804; no changes in text.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετροσζμῆθις Πελαίου Παιαὶ
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ὀγδώου 1 l. ὀγδόου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ
3Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δέκα ἑπτὰ
4(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ σὺν αἶς ἔσχον διὰ Βιήνχιος. Ἑρμογένης
5Ἀμμωνᾶτος πράκτωρ ἔγραψα
6Μεσορὴ λ̅.

1 l. ὀγδόου
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias Paiai,
2for poll tax of the eighth year of Trajan
3Caesar the lord, seventeen silver drachmas,
4= 17 dr., together with those which I have received through Bienchis. Hermogenes,
5son of Ammonas, collector, I have written,
6Mesore 30.
BL_13978_S1_001
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BL_13978_S2_001
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BL14804+13978_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 08 Mesore 30 105 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_13978_S1_001
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BL_13978_S2_001
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BL14804+13978_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309420
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76654
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;76
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309420 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13978 (5790s)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.