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Ostr. London, British Library 14049 (5788d)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14049 (5788d)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 67
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: medium
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: medium
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
State of Preservation (Text) one line not read yet, damaged?
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 of trade tax and epikarsion(?)
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 cheironaxion of year 5 of Trajan and for epikarsion, paid by Petueris, son of Peteuris (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 Πετεῦρις Πετεύρεως
2ὑπὲρ χ(ειρωναξίου) πέμτου 1 l. πέμπτου (ἔτους)
3Τραειανοῦ 2 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος
4τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ιβ.
5ὑπὲρ ἐπικαρσίου οὗ ἔσχεν
6Κᾶσις. Ἑρμογένης
7πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. πέμπτου
2 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Peteuris, son of Peteuris,
2for trade tax of the fifth year
3of Trajan Caesar
4the lord 12 silver dr.
5(and) for epikarsion? which has received (collected?)
6Kasis. Hermogenes,
7collector, I 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 05 101 CE 102 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309452
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76645
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;67
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309452 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14049 (5788d)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.