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Ostr. London, British Library 13998

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13998
Publication Number O.Wilck. 270
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: corrected: year 6
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of scribe Serenos (boethos)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and contribution for the men who have fled (merismos andron anakechorekoton)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for laographia of year 16 of Marcus Aurelius and for merismos (andron anakechorekoton) of year 15, written and given out by Serenos boethos.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr.l. 1, 3, 4, 5.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ιϛ (ἔτους) Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος 1ed. Κα[ίσαρος]
2τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ ι̅ζ̅. διέγραψαν Σω ̣ ̣ ̣ ?
3καὶ Σεραπίων ἀμφότεροι Ἁτπήους (μητρὸς) 2ed. ο( ) Θιν ̣ ̣ ̣ ? ὑπ(ὲρ)
4λαογραφίας ιϛ (ἔτους) ἕκαστος (δραχμὰς) ιζ (ὀβολόν) 3ed. ἐκ (δραχμῶν) ιζ, καὶ ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ἀνδ(ρῶν) ἀνακεχ(ωρηκότων) 4ed. μερισμ[ῶν ἀπὸ]
5λήμματος ιε (ἔτους) ἕκαστος (δραχμὰς) β (ὀβολόν) 5ed. ἐκ (δραχμῶν) β (ὀβολοῦ). διὰ Σερήνου βοη(θοῦ). 6ed. Σε[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]

1 ed. Κα[ίσαρος]
2 ed. ο( )
3 ed. ἐκ (δραχμῶν) ιζ
4 ed. μερισμ[ῶν ἀπὸ]
5 ed. ἐκ (δραχμῶν) β (ὀβολοῦ)
6 ed. Σε[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
convex
1Year 16 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar
2the lord, Mesore 17. Thus have paid So---
3and Sarapion, both sons of Hatpes and the mother Thin---, for
4poll tax of year 16, each 17 dr. 1 ob., and for the contribution of the men who have fled
5for the accounting of year 15, each 2 dr. 1 ob. Through Serenus, assistant.
BL_13998_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22775 man Serapion, son of Hatpes and Thin--- Σεραπίων Ἁτπήους Θιν[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ? Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius 16 Mesore 17 176 August 10 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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BL_13998_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309436
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76836
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;270
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309436 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13998), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.