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Ostr. London, British Library 14021 (5790w)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14021 (5790w)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 45
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 Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for trade tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for cheironaxion of year 1 of Nerva, paid by Peteuris, son of Peteuris (archive) in installments, with signature of praktor Hermogenes.
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
1Πετεῦρις Πετεύρεος
2λινοπόλης 1 l. λινοπώλ(ης) ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου πρώτου (ἔτους)
3Νερουᾶ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
4ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) τέσσαρες (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
5ὡ 2 l. ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 3 l. λοιπὰς τοῦ α (ἔτους)
6(δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. Ἑρμογένης Ἀμμωνᾶτος
7πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. λινοπώλ(ης)
2 l. ὁ
3 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1(Thus has paid) Peteuris, son of Peteuris,
2seller of linen, for trade tax of the first year
3of Nerva Caesar the lord,
4on account, four dr., = 4 dr.
5The same the remainder of the 1. year,
6eight dr., = 8 dr. Hermogenes, son of Ammonas,
7collector, I have written.
BL_14021_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nerva 01 96 CE 97 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_14021_S1_001
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BL_14021_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309446
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76624
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;45
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309446 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14021 (5790w)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.