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Ostr. London, British Library 5831

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5831
Publication Number O.Wilck. 261
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 incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 at left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Serenus
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for contribution for the men who have fled
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content fragment. receipt of unknown collectors for merismos andron anakechorekoton in the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Verus, name of tax payer not preserved. date: probably year 9: scribe Serenos with collectors Hierax and Herodes in year 9 for merismos and. anak. of year 6 and 7,
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. date: probably year 9: scribe Serenos with collectors Hierax and Herodes in year 9 for merismos and. anak. of year 6 and 7, l. 1-4 supplied differently
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -ca.16- μη̣τρὸς Θιν̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
x+2ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμ(ῶν) ἀνδ(ρῶν) ἀνακεχωρηκότων λημάτων ς (ἔτους) ?
x+3ὀβολ(οὺς) δύο, καὶ ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀνακεχ(ωρηκότων)
x+4(λημάτ(ων) ζ (ἔτους) ὀβολοὺς δύω 1 l. δύο δίχαλκ[ον]
x+5(γίνονται) (διώβολον) (δίχαλκον). (ἔτους) θ Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου
x+6Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων Φαῶφι ι̅ζ̅.

1 l. δύο
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- and the mother Thin---,
x+2for the contribution for the men who have fled for the accounting or year 6 ---?
x+3two obols, and for the contribution for the men who have fled
x+4for the accounting of year 7 two obols two chalkoi,
x+5= 2 ob. 2 ch. Year 9? of Antoninus and Verus
x+6Caesares the lord, Phaophi 17.
BL_5831_S1_001
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BL_5831_S2_001
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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
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 09 Phaophi 17 168 October 14 CE date in text, year incertain, cf. corr.***;

 

Pictures

BL_5831_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_5831_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309487
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76828
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;261
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309487 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5831), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.