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Ostr. London, British Library 14034 (5791v)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14034 (5791v)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 55
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 dat 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 Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Hermogenes for laographia of year 2 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Phanophis (archive?), with signature of 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
1διέγραψεν Πετροσζμῆθις Φενώφεος
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας β (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ
3Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ιζ.
4Ἑρμογένης Ἀμμωνᾶτος πράκτωρ
5ἔγραψα.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Phanophis,
2for poll tax of year 2 of Trajan
3Caesar the lord 17 silver dr.
4Hermogenes, son of Ammonas, collector,
5I have written.
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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
Trajan 02 98 CE 99 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309450
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76634
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;55
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309450 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14034 (5791v)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.