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Ostr. London, British Library 13992 (5790r)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13992 (5790r)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 66
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 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for an instalment for cheironaxion of year 5 of Trajan, paid by Peteuris, son of Peteuris (archive). probably written by praktor Hermogenes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. receipt is perhaps not finished: There should follow probably more installments until the amount for the year was paid in full. The signature of the praktor Hermogenes would have followed at the end.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πέτευρις Πετεύρεως
2ὑπ(ὲρ) χ(ειρωναξίου) ε (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ
3τοῦ κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) δ.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Peteuris, son of Peteuris,
2for trade tax of year 5 of Trajan
3the lord, on account, 4 dr.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4260 man Peteuris, son of Peteuris, linopoles Πετεῦρις pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 05 101 CE 102 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_13992_S1_001
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BL_13992_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309432
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76644
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;66
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309432 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13992 (5790r)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.