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Ostr. London, British Library 13984 (5791s)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13984 (5791s)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 69
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:
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 7
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 the praktor Hermogenes for laographia of year 6 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of Phanophis, grandson of Thrakidas (archive), with signature of praktor Hermogenes
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 Ἁρπαῆσις Φενώφεως Θρακίδας
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ἕκτου (ἔτους)
3Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
4ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η Ἐπὶφ ιη.
5ὡ 2 l. ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 3l. λοιπὰς (δραχμὰς) ἐννέα (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ.
6Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα
7Μεσορὴ κ̅ϛ̅.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
2 l. ὁ
3 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Phanophis Thrakidas,
2for poll tax of the sixth year
3of Trajan Caesar the lord,
4on account, eight dr., = 8 dr., Epeiph 18.
5The same, the remaining nine dr., = 9 dr.
6Hermogenes, collector, I have written,
7Mesore 26.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12605 man Harpaesis, son of Phanopis, (grandson of Thrakid) Ἁρπαῆσις Φανώφεος (Θρακίδ(ου)? Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 06 Mesore 26 103 August 19 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309425
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76647
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;69
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309425 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13984 (5791s)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.