Ostr. London, British Library 14121 (5790u)
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 14121 (5790u) |
| Publication Number |
O.Wilck. 131 |
| 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 |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
8 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt for merismos potamophylakidon of year 8 of Hadrain, 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 |
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
woman in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Pachompetenephotes, collector. |
2 | | Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis |
3 | | and the mother Tachomtbekis, |
4 | | for the contribution for river police boats |
5 | | of year 9, ten oboloi brutto.|
6 | | Year 9 of Hadrian Caesar |
7 | | the lord, Mechir |
8 | | 25.
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
09 |
Mecheir |
25 |
125 February 19 CE |
date in text; |
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Literature
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Boswinkel, Ernst & Clarysse, Willy & Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, BL 7: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band VII (1986). (300)
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Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (43-46.)
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The New Palaeographical Society, The New Palaeographical Society. Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts etc., Series II [in 13 parts] (1913). (Vol. I. pl. 2, No. 10.)
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Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (38, no. 131.)
| DatasetID |
309464 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
76704 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.wilck;;131 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309464 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14121 (5790u)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
