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Ostr. London, British Library 14122 (5791k)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14122 (5791k)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 134
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:

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 scribe 1 of Triadelphos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for merismos potamophylakidon of year 10 of Hadrian, paid by Harpaesis, son of Petorzmethis.
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
1Τριάδελφος πράκ-
2τωρ. διέγραψεν Ἑρπαῆσι Πε-
3τορζμήθου ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
4ποταμονφυλακίδες 1 l. ποταμονφυλακίδος (ἔτους) ι Ἁδρι-
5ανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
6(δραχμὴν) α. (ἔτους) ι Ἁδριανοῦ Καί-
7σαρος τοῦ κυρίου
8Θὼθ κ̅θ̅.

1 l. ποταμονφυλακίδος
convex
1Triadelphos collector.
2Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of
3Petorzmethis, for the contribution for
4river police boats of year 10 of Hadrian
5Caesar the lord ---
61 dr. Year 10 of Hadrian
7Caesar the lord,
8Thoth 29.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15190 man Harpaesis, son of Petorzmethis Ἑρπαῆσι Πετορζμήθου Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 10 Thoth 29 125 September 26 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309465
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76707
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;134
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309465 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14122 (5791k)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.