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Ostr. London, British Library 13990 (5788e)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13990 (5788e)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 74
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 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 for laographia of year 8 of Trajan, paid by Peteuris, son of Peteuris, linen seller (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 Πέτευρις Πετεύρεως λινοπόλης 1 l. λινοπώλ(ης)
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ὀγδώου 2 l. ὀγδόου (ἔτους)
3Τραειανοῦ 3 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δέκα ἑπτά, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ σὺν αἶς ἐσχων 4 l. ἔσχο(ν)
5προτέραις. Ἑρμογένης Ἀμμωνᾶτος
6πράκτωρ ἔγραψα. Μεσορη ι̅η̅.

1 l. λινοπώλ(ης)
2 l. ὀγδόου
3 l. Τραιανοῦ
4 l. ἔσχο(ν)
convex
1Thus has paid Peteuris, son of Peteuris, seller of linen,
2for poll tax of the eighth year
3of Trajan Caesar the lord
4seventeen silver drachmae, = 17 dr., together with those which I received
5earlier. Hermogenes, son of Ammonas,
6collector, I have written. Mesore 18.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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 08 Mesore 18 105 August 11 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309430
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76652
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;74
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309430 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13990 (5788e)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.