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Ostr. London, British Library 14138 (5890b)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14138 (5890b)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 9
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
Dating between 26 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken off at top, only date left

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken off at top, only date preserved
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown?
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content fragment of receipt, only the date at the end is preserved, reign of Tiberius.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. date: year 13
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1(ἔτους) ιγ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος
x+2Σεβαστοῦ μηνὶ
x+3Νέῳ Σεβαστῷ
x+4τετράδι.
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1Year 13 of Tiberius Caesar
x+2Augustus, in the month
x+3Neos Sebastos
x+4on the fourth.
BL_14138_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
_14138_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 13 Neos Sebastos 04 26 October 31 CE date in text, corr. year: 13;

 

Pictures

BL_14138_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
_14138_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309468
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76590
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;9
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309468 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14138 (5890b)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.