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Ostr. London, British Library 5790o

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5790o
Publication Number O.Wilck. 70
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) Salt, Henry
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) Salt, Henry
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation object missing

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 Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of practor Hermogenes for laographia of year 7 of Hadrian, paid by Harpaesis, son of Phanophis, grandson of Thrakidas (archive), with signature of Hermogenes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ostracon not found/identified.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ἁρπαῆσις Φενώφεως Θρακίδας
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ἑβδόμου (ἔτους)
3Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ
4κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) η.
5<ὁ> αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς 1 l. λοιπὰς (δραχμὰς) θ.
6Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. λοιπὰς
convex
1Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Phanophis Thrakidas,
2for poll tax of the seventh year
3of Trajan Caesar the
4lord, on account, 8 dr.
5The same the remaining 9 dr.
6Hermogenes, collector, I have written.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12605 man Harpaesis, son of Phanopis, (grandson of Thrakid) Ἁρπαῆσις Φανώφεος (Θρακίδ(ου)? Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 07 103 CE 104 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309478
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76648
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;70
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309478 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5790o ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.