Metadata
Text
Text: People
Text: Dates
Literature

Persons & Deities

Ostr. Bruxelles, Private Collection Hombert X

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_309529.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Bruxelles, Private Collection Hombert X
Publication Number	P.Homb. II 45
Current Location	private collection
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	(unknown) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 106 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

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	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Hermogenes praktor for poll tax of year 10 of Trajan, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Thrakidas
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	διέγραψεν Παχνοῦβις Πετροσζμητ ¹l. Πετορζμήτιος Θρακίδου
2	ὑ̣πὲρ λαογραφίας ἐνάτου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ ² l. Τραιανοῦ
3	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δεκαεπτά, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
4	Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.
5	(ἔτους) ι Τραειανοῦ ³ l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
6	Ἁθ̣ὺ̣ρ η̅.

¹ l. Πετορζμήτιος
² l. Τραιανοῦ
³ l. Τραιανοῦ

convex

1	Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Thrakidas,
2	for poll tax of the nineth year of Trajan
3	Caesar the lord, silver drachmas seventeen, = 17 dr.
4	Hermogenes, tax collector, I have written.
5	Year 10 of Trajan Caesar the lord,
6	Hathyr 8.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4443	man	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor	Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	10	Hathyr	08	106 November 4 CE	date in text;

Literature

Nachtergael, Georges, La collection Marcel Hombert, T. 2: Nouveaux documents grecs d'Égypte et addenda au Tome 1 (2003). (no. 45)

DatasetID	309529
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	78363
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.hombert;2;45
Author	ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309529 (= Ostr. Bruxelles, Private Collection Hombert X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: ruth Duttenhöfer.