Ostr. London, British Library 13997 (5790f)

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 13997 (5790f)
Publication Number	O.Wilck. 194
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Krall, Jakob Certainty: high

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 Palachemis 2
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis 2 boethos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of the supervisors (epiteretai) Tiberius Iulius Longinus and Valerius, son of Sokrates, together with the tax farmer (misthotai) Herakleides and Isidoros through the assistant Palachemis, for cheironaxion of year 6 of Antoninus Pius, paid by Kasis, son of Patseos and Thimeaus.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 6 name: Patseotos, l. 7 Thimeautios no change of hand in l 10
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Τιβέριος Ἰούλιος Λονγεῖνος
2	καὶ Οὐαλέριος Σωκράτους
3	καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς
4	πύλης Σοήνης, ἐπακολουθούντων Ἡρακλείδου
5	καὶ Ἰσιδώρου μισθωτῶν διὰ Παλαχήμιος
6	βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Κᾶσις Πατσεῶτ̣ος ¹ed. Πατεπ̣ῶτ̣ος
7	μητρὸς Θιμεαύτιος χειροναξίου ² l. χειρω(ναξίου) ϛ (ἔτους)
8	δραχμὰς δέκα δύο (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ. (ἔτους) ζ
9	Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
10	Ἁθὺρ γ. θ̅, ὁ αὐτὸς διέγραψεν χειροναξίου ³ l. χειρω(ναξίου) δραχμὰς
11	ὀκτὼ ὀβολοὺς δύο (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η (διώβολον).

¹ ed. Πατεπ̣ῶτ̣ος
² l. χειρω(ναξίου)
³ l. χειρω(ναξίου)

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1	Tiberius Iulius Longinus
2	and Valerius, son of Sokrates,
3	and their associate supervisors of the Sacred
4	Gate of Syene, further being present Herakleides
5	and Isidoros, tax farmers, through Palachemis,
6	assistant. Thus has paid Kasis, son of Patseos
7	and the mother Thimeautis, for trade tax of year 6,
8	twelve drachmae, = 12 dr. Year 7
9	of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
10	Hathyr 3. On (Hathyr) 9 has the same paid for trade tax
11	eight drachmae, two oboloi, = 9 dr. 2 ob.

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Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12980	man	Herakleides misthotes	Ἡρακλείδης misthotes	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	07	Hathyr	03	143 October 31 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	310189
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76762
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;194
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310189 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13997 (5790f)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .