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Ostr. London, British Library 14116 (5790e)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14116 (5790e)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 10
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 unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
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 3 of Gaius (Caligula), paid by Petesouchos, son of Pasenis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1: Peteso[u-]chos
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διαγεγράφηκεν Πετε̣σ̣ο̣ῦ- 1ed. Πετε̣π̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
2χος Πασηνις ὑπὲρ λωγραφ-
3ίας 2 l. λαογραφ|ίας τοῦ τρίτου (ἔτους) Γαίου
4Καίσαρος Σε̣β̣α̣σ̣τ̣οῦ Ἐπὲφ ̣
5ἀ̣ργυρίου δραχμὰς
6ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η ἐπὶ
7λόγου.

1 ed. Πετε̣π̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
2 l. λαογραφ|ίας
convex
1Thus has paid Petesou-
2chos, son of Pasenis, for poll tax
3of the third year of Gaius
4Caesar Augustus, Epeiph ?,
5silver drachmas
6eight, = 8 dr., on
7account.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22855 man Petesouchos, son of Pasenis Πετε̣σ̣ο̣[ῦ-]χος Πασῆνις pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Gaius (Caligula) 03 Epeiph 39 June 25 CE 39 July 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_14116_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309460
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76591
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;10
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309460 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14116 (5790e)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.