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Persons & Deities

Ostr. München, BSB X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. München, BSB X
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 46
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 97 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 praktor Hermogenes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
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 documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Hermogenes praktor for poll tax of year 1 of Nerva, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Ammonios and Tisatis?, with signature of Hermogenes.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok text as printed in O.Wilck. but formula at the beginning doubtable. no photo available.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Πετροσζμῆθις Ἀμμωνίου
2	Τισάτιος διέγραψεν ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας πρώτου
3	(ἔτους) Νερουᾶ Καίσαρος τοῦ
4	κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η.
5	Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα Ἐπὶφ η̅.
6	ὁ αὐτὸς Πετροσζμῆθις τὰς λυπὰς ¹ l. λοιπὰς
7	τοῦ α (ἔτους) Νερουᾶ τοῦ κυρίου (δραχμὰς) ἐννήα ² l. ἐννέα
8	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ. Ἑρμογένης Ἀμμωνᾶτος πράκτωρ ἔγραψα Μεσορὴ λ̅.

¹ l. λοιπὰς
² l. ἐννέα

convex

1	Petorzmethis, son of Ammonios
2	and Tisatis has paid for poll tax of the first
3	year of Nerva Caesar the
4	lord, on account, eight dr., = 8 dr.
5	Hermogenes, collector, I have written, Epeiph 8.
6	The same Petorzmethis the remainder
7	of the first year of Nerva the lord, nine dr.,
8	= 9 dr. Hermogenes, son of Ammonas, collector, I have written. Mesore 30.

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
Nerva	01	Mesore	30	97 August 23 CE	date in text;

Literature

Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 46.)

DatasetID	309539
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76625
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;46
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309539 (= Ostr. München, BSB X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.