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Ostr. London, British Library 14115 (5790o)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14115 (5790o)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 52
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
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 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 for laographia of year 1 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of Phanophis (archive), just being adult (aphelix), with signature of praktor Hermogenes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ἁρπαῆσις Φενώφεως ἀφῆλιξ
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας α (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος
3τοῦ κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) η.
4ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 2 l. λοιπὰς (δραχμὰς) θ.
5Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
2 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Phanophis, who is of age,
2for poll tax of year of Trajan Caesar
3the lord, on account, 8 dr.
4The same the remaining 9 dr.
5Hermogenes, collector, I have written.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12605 man Harpaesis, son of Phanopis, (grandson of Thrakid) Ἁρπαῆσις Φανώφεος (Θρακίδ(ου)? Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 01 98 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309459
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76631
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;52
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309459 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14115 (5790o)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.