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Ostr. London, British Library 13996 (5788f)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13996 (5788f)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 63
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 8
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 4 of Trajan in installments, 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)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἁρπαῆσις Θρακίδας
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τετάρτου
3(ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.
5ὁμοίως (δραχμὰς) ὀκτώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.
6ὡ 2 l. ὁ αὐτὸς τὴν λυπὴν 3 l. λοιπὴν (δραχμὴν) α
7Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ
8ἔγραψα.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
2 l. ὁ
3 l. λοιπὴν
convex
1(Thus has paid) Harpaesis Thrakidas
2for poll tax of the fourth
3year of Trajan the lord,
4on account, eight dr., = 8 dr.
5ditto, eight dr., = 8 dr.
6The same the remaining 1 dr.
7Hermogenes, collector,
8I have written.
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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 04 100 CE 101 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309435
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76641
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;63
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309435 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13996 (5788f)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.