Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19896
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19896 |
| Publication Number |
O.Wilck. 125 |
| Current Location |
Vatican Museum |
| 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 |
between 123 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 |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
check photo??? |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of Sarapion 1 |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
12 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon) |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | receipt
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt of supervisor (epiteretes) Sempronius Celer and his associates through the scribe Sarapion for laographia and desmophylakia of year 7 of Hadrian, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia, grandson of Psansnos (archive) in year 8 of Hadrian |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
corr. l. 3: name of scribe: Sarap(ionos)
check photo! |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Sempronius Celer and his associate |
2 | | supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, |
3 | | through Sarapion. Thus has paid Pa-|
4 | | tsibtis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Psan-|
5 | | snos, of the mother Senpelaia, |
6 | | for poll tax of the seventh |
7 | | year of Hadrian |
8 | | Caesar the lord,|
9 | | seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob., |
10 | | for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob. |
11 | | Year 8 of Hadrian the lord, |
12 | | Phaophi 6.
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| Places (read out from edition) Σοή- νης (places.xml#8) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
08 |
Phaophi |
06 |
123 October 4 CE |
date in text; |
Pictures
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Literature
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Boswinkel, Ernst & Clarysse, Willy & Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, BL 7: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band VII (1986). (300)
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Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine III: Anmerkungen zu O.Bankes und verwandten Texten. ()
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Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 125.)
| DatasetID |
310163 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
76698 |
| Papyri.info |
ddbdp/o.wilck;;125 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 310163 (= Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19896), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
