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Ostr. London, British Library 13994 (5790a)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13994 (5790a)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 68
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 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 written by praktor Hermogenes for laographia of year 6 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias, Paiai (archive)
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 Πελαίου
2Παιαὶ ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας
3ἕκτου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1l. Τραιανοῦ
4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
5ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias
2Paiai, for poll tax
3of the sixth year of Trajan
4Caesar the lord,
5on account eight drachmae, = 8 dr.
BL_13994_S1_001
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BL_13994_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
470 (unknown) (not mentioned, no text) (not mentioned, no text) German

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 06 102 CE 103 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_13994_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_13994_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309433
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76646
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;68
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309433 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13994 (5790a)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.