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Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3158

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3158
Publication Number SB I 4359
Current Location Cambridge, Harvard, Houghton Library
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
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 April 136
Dating between 136 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Surface abraded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Psanmous
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for the billeting of soldiers (diplon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Psanmous for contribution for the billeting of soldiers (diplon) of year 20 of Hadrian, paid by Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis. Receipt?, April 0136. In Greek. 8 x 7.5 cm.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok. l. 3 in lacuna supplied 5 ob.?
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ψανμοῦς πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν
2Ζμενπῶς Πετορζμήθεως
3μητρὸς Τισᾶτις ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
4διπλῶν κ (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰς (δραχμὰς) β (πεντώβολον)?. (ἔτους) κ
5Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
6τοῦ κυρίου, Φαρμοῦθι κζ.
convex
1Psanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid
2Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis
3and the mother Tisatis, for the contribution
4for billeting of year 20, brutto, 2 dr. (5 ob.?). Year 20
5of Hadrian Caesar
6the lord, Pharmouthi 27.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4331 man Psanmous praktor Ψανμοῦς pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 20 Pharmuthi 27 136 April 22 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 310082
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 23117
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;1;4359
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310082 (= Ostr. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library 3158), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.