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Ostr. London, British Library 14120 (5790e)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14120 (5790e)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 127
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 praktor Pachompatenephotes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for contribution for river police boats
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for merismos potamophylakidon of year 8 of Hadrian, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis and Tachomtbekis (archive).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Comment on Gender woman in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Παχομπατενεφώτης πράκτωρ.
2διέγραψεν Παχνοῦβις Φανώφεως
3μητρὸς Ταχομτβήκιος μερισμοῦ ποτα-
4μοφυλακίδος η (ἔτους) ῥυπαροὺς ὀβολοὺς δέκα. (ἔτους) η
5Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Φαρμοῦθι ι̅α̅.
convex
1Pachompatenephotes, collector.
2Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis
3and the mother Tachomtbekis, for the contribution of river
4police boats of year 8, ten obols brutto. Year 8
5of Hadrian the lord, Pharmouthi, 11.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4726 man Pachnoumis, son of Phanophis und Tachomtbekis Παχνοῦμις Φανώφεως Ταχουμτβῆκις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 08 Pharmuthi 11 124 April 6 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309463
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76700
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;127
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309463 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14120 (5790e) ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.