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Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3146

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3146
Publication Number SB XIV 11923
Current Location Cambridge, Harvard, Houghton 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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object ca. 138-141
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and trade tax (cheironaxion) of year 20 of Hadrian in installments
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for partial payments for poll tax and trade tax of year 20 of Hadrian, written by Pachompsachis. The taxpayer is Zmentpos, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. date year 4 of Antoninus, cf. Duttenhöfer 2017, p. 228: cf. O.Bankes 16 for the formula l. 6: suppl [4 dr. 1/2 ob.] corr. ho a(utos)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1(ἔτους) δ? Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
2τοῦ κυρίου Φαμενὼθ ι̅θ̣̅. διέγραψεν
3Ζμεντπῶς Πετορζμήθιος μητρὸς
4Τισᾶτις ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας κ (ἔτους) θεοῦ
5Ἁδριανοῦ (δραχμὰς) γ (τριώβολον), χειρωναξίου
6 κ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) δ (ἡμιωβέλιον), ὁ αὐτὸς 1ed. το]ῦ α(ὐτου) ὀνόματος
7- 11 -θου Π -?-
7+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

1 ed. το]ῦ α(ὐτου)
convex
1Year 4 of Antoninus Caesar
2the lord, Phamenoth 19. Thus has paid
3Zmentpos, son of Petorzmethis and the mother
4Tisatis, for poll tax of year 20 of the deifyed
5Hadrian, 3 dr. 3 ob., for trade tax
6of year 20, 4 dr. 1/2 ob., and the same on the name
7of ---thes, son of P---
7+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Harvard_3146_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12900 man Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis Zmenpos, s. of Petorzmethis uand Tisatis Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 04 Phamenoth 19 141 March 15 CE date incertain; according to scribe's hand and other formulaic considerations;

 

Pictures

Harvard_3146_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309520
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 15475
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;14;11923
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Verena Lepper
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309520 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3146), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Verena Lepper.