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Ostr. London, British Library 5822

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5822
Publication Number O.Wilck. 15
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) Sams, Joseph
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) Sams, Joseph
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 surface covered with residue

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) surface covered by residue
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Rufonius Antigonos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Rufonius Antigonos for geometria phoinikonon of the harvest of year 4 of Nero, paid by ---, son of Zmethis-
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
1Ῥουφώνιος Ἀντίγονος. διαγεγράφηκεν
2 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ς Ζμήθιος ὑπὲρ
3γεομετρίας 1 l. γεωμ(ετρίας) φοινικῶνος δ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς
4δύο ὀβολὸν ἡμιωβέλιον (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (ὀβολὸς) (ἡμιωβέλιον).
5(ἔτους) ε Νέρωνος Καίσαρος
6τοῦ κυρίου Φαρμοῦθι κ.

1 l. γεωμ(ετρίας)
convex
1Rufonius Antigonos. Thus has paid
2---, son of Zmethis, for
3the survey on palm groves of year 4,
4two drachmae one and a half obols, = 2 dr. 1,5 ob.
5Year 5 of Nero Caesar
6the lord, Pharmouthi 20-
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15320 man ---, son of Zmethis ---Ζμήθιος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nero 05 Pharmuthi 20 59 April 15 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 309485
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76596
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;15
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309485 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5822), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.