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Ostr. London, British Library 14018 (5790h)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14018 (5790h)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 37
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty:
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 Sokrates
  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 for laographia of year 11 of Domitian, paid by Pateuris, son of Pateuris (probably for regular Peteuris), (archive), with signature of praktor Sokrates.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. archive of Peteuris, son of Peteuris, linopoles
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πατεῦρις Πατε-
2ύρεως ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ια (ἔτους)
3Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ιϛ. Σωκράτης
5πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.
convex
1Thus has paid Peteuris, son of Peteuris,
2for poll tax of year 11
3of Domitian the lord
416 silver dr. Sokrates,
5collector, I have written.
BL_14018_S1_001
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BL_14018_S2_001
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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
Domitian 11 91 CE 92 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_14018_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_14018_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309443
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76616
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;37
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309443 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14018 (5790h)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.