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Ostr. London, British Library 14118 (5790y)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14118 (5790y)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 61
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: 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 praktor Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for laographia of year 4 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias, Paiai (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
1Πετροσζμῆθις Πελαίου Παιαὶ
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τετάρτου (ἔτους)
3Τραειανοῦ 1 l. Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.
5ὁμοίως (δραχμὰς) τέσσαρες (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
6ὡ 2 l. ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 3 l. λοιπὰς (δραχμὰς) ε.
7Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ
8ἔγραψα.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
2 l. ὁ
3 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1(Thus has paid) Petorzmethis, son of Pelaias Paiai,
2for poll tax of the fourth year
3of Trajan the lord,
4on account, eight dr., = 8 dr.
5ditto, four dr., = 4 dr.
6The same the remainng 5 dr.
7Hermogenes, collector,
8I have written.
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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 04 100 CE 101 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309462
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76639
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;61
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309462 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14118 (5790y)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.