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Ostr. London, British Library 14169 (5791p) + 5791 n

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14169 (5791p) + 5791 n
Publication Number O.Wilck. 128
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 incomplete
State of Preservation two fragments joined, piece still largely fragmentary

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) two fragments joined, still great loss of text in the upper part
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of scribe Sarapion
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakitikon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for laographia and desmophylakia of year 8 of Hadrian in several installments reaching into year 9, probably* collected by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. add a new line after 1, supplies changed, cf. WO 109 and WO 123
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1δι(ὰ) Σαραπίωνος. 1ed. Δ[ιδυμίων πράκ(τωρ). διέγρ(αψεν) ΝΝ
2 NN -?-
3ὑπ(ὲρ) λαο(γραφίας) ὀγδόου (ἔτους) δραχ(μὰς) τέσσαρας (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ,
4(ἔτους) η Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου, (month) δ̅, 2ed. (ὀβολὸς)
5κ̅γ̅ ἄλλας δραχ(μὰς) τέσσαρες (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ,
6Μεσορὴ ̣ ̣ ἄλλας δραχμὰς τέσσαρες (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ,
7θ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
8Θὼθ κ̅ϛ̅ ἄλλας δραχμὰς πέντε (ἡμιωβέλιον),
9δεσμο(φυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ε (ὀβολὸς) (γίνονται) ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολὸς).

1 ed. Δ[ιδυμίων πράκ(τωρ).
2 ed. (ὀβολὸς)
convex
1Through Sarapion. Thus has paid ---
2--- NN ---
3for poll tax of year 8 four drachmae, = 4 dr.
4Year 8 of Hadrian the lord, (month) 4,
5On the 23rd further four drachmae, = 4 dr.,
6Mesore ?, further four drachmae, = 4 dr.
7Year 9 of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
8Thoth 26, further five drachmae and a half obol,
9for prison guards a half obol, = 5 dr. 1 ob. , total 17 dr. 1 ob.
BL_14169_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
5 (unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) German

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 09 Thoth 26 124 September 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309470
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76701
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;128
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309470 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14169 (5791p) + 5791 n), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.