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Ostr. München, BSB X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. München, BSB X
Publication Number O.Wilck. 30
Current Location (unknown)
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 between 77 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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 right, no photo available
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Melanthis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Melanthis for laographia of year 9 of Vespasian, paid by Zmethis, son of Patermouthis; with signature of Melanthis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. no photo available
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ζμῆθις Πατερμούθιος
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ἐνάτου ἔτους
3Οὐεσπασειανοῦ 1 l. Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4Μεσορὴ κ̅ζ̅ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἓξ
5(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ. Μελάνθις ἔγραψα.

1 l. Οὐεσπασιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Zmethis, son of Patermouthis,
2for poll tax of the nineth year
3of Vespasian the lord,
4Mesore 27, silver drachmas sixteen,
5= 16 dr. Melanthis, I have written.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13140 man Melanthis (son of Hermodotos) praktor Μελανθις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Vespasian 09 Mesore 27 77 August 20 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309538
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76610
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;30
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309538 (= Ostr. München, BSB X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.