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Ostr. London, British Library 5808

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5808
Publication Number O.Wilck. 199
Current Location London, British 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]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Salt, Henry
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Salt, Henry
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, surface covered with white residue.

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 upper left corner,surface covered with white residue.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sarapion
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for trade tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of ---, son of Kallistos and his associate misthotai of Syene throug the assistant Sarapion for cheironaxion of year 8 of Antoninus, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia (archive).
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1 ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ Καλλίστου καὶ οἱ σὺν
2αὐτ(ῷ) ἐπιτ(ηρηταὶ) ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης
3διὰ Σαραπίωνος βοηθοῦ.
4διέγραψεν Πατίβπτις Πετορ-
5ζμήθιος μητρὸς Σινπελαίας
6ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου 1 corr. ex λαο τοῦ η (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου
7Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς
8δραχμὰς εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς
9δύο (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον)
10Ἐπεὶφ ζ̅.

1 corr. ex λαο
convex
1---, son of Kallistos and his associate
2supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
3through Sarapion, assistant.
4Thus has paid Patsibtis, son of Petor-
5zmethis and the mother Senpelaia,
6for trade tax of year 8 of Antoninus
7Caesar the lord, brutto,
8twenty drachmae two
9oboloi, = 20 dr. 2 ob.,
10Epeiph 7.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    15550 man ---, son of Kallistos misthotes --- Καλλίστου Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 08 Epeiph 07 145 July 1 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 310207
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 76767
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;199
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 310207 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5808), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .