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Ostr. London, British Library 14059 (5788a)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14059 (5788a)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 36
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 Sokrates (praktor)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Sokrates for laographia of year 9 of Domitian, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis, with signature of Sokrates
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text photo prüfen!! name l. 1??? Peliou
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις Πετροζμήθιος
2ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογραφίας ἐνάτου (ἔτους)
3Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργυ(ρίου) (δραχμὰς) ιϛ. Σωκράτης
5πράκ(τωρ) γραψα.
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis,
2for poll tax of the nineth year
3of Domitian the lord
416 silver dr. Sokrates,
5collector, I have written.
BrLib_14059_S1_001
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BrLib_14059_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4255 man Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis (Vesp/Domit) Πετορζμῆθις Πετροζμήθιος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 09 89 CE 90 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BrLib_14059_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BrLib_14059_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309454
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76615
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;36
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309454 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14059 (5788a)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.