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Ostr. London, British Library 13982 (5791a)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13982 (5791a)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 53
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty:
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 Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for laographia of the first year of Trajan in installments, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias, grandson? of Paiai, with signature of the praktor Hermogenes, son of Ammonas
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετροσζμῆθις 1ed. Πατροσζμῆθ(ις) Πελαίου Παιαὶ ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας
2α (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 2 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
3ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) τέσσαρας (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ. Παοῖνι η̅ ἄλλας (δραχμὰς) δ.
4ὁμοίως ἔχω ἄλλας (δραχμὰς) ζ. ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 3 l. λοιπὰς (δραχμὰς) β.
5Ἑρμογένης Ἀμμωνᾶτος πράκτωρ ἔγραψα Ἐπὶφ λ̅.

1 ed. Πατροσζμῆθ(ις)
2 l. Τραιανοῦ
3 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias Paiai, for poll tax
2of year 1 of Trajan Caesar the lord,
3on account, four dr., = 4 dr. On Payni 8, further 4 dr.
4Ditto, I have received further 7 dr. The same the remaining 2 dr.
5Hermogenes, son of Ammonas, collector, I have written. Epeiph 30.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 01 Epeiph 30 98 July 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309423
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76632
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;53
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309423 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13982 (5791a)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.