Ostr. London, British Library 13985 (5791e)
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 13985 (5791e) |
| Publication Number |
O.Wilck. 85 |
| 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 epiteretes Lucius Aurelius |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
7 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and for the contribution for certificates of billeting (merismos diplon) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt of supervisor (epiteretes) Lucius Aurelius for laographia of year 15 of Trajan and for certificates of billeting, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis and Tachomtbekis |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
ok. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | διέγραψεν
Παχνοῦμις |
2 | | Φανώφεως
μητρὸς
Ταχουμτβῆκις
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3 | | ὑπὲρ
λαογραφίας τοῦ ιε (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ |
4 | | τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ καὶ |
5 | | ὑπὲρ
διπλῶν
ὀβολοὺς δύο χαλκοῦς β (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (διώβολον) χαλκοῖ β. |
6 | | (ἔτους) ιϛ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Μεχὶρ ι̅θ̅
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7 | | διὰ
Λουκίου
Αὐρηλίου
ἐπιτηρητοῦ.
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1 | | Thus has paid Pachnoumis, |
2 | | son of Phanophis and the mother Tachomtbekis, |
3 | | for poll tax of year 15 of Trajan |
4 | | the lord, seventeen drachmae, and |
5 | | for certificates of billeting two oboloi 2 chalkoi, = 17 dr. 2 ob. 2 ch. |
6 | | Year 16 of Trajan the lord, Mechir 19, |
7 | | through Lucius Aurelius, supervisor.
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Trajan |
16 |
Mecheir |
19 |
113 February 13 CE |
date in text; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309426 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
76663 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.wilck;;85 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309426 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13985 (5791e)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
