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Persons & Deities

Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 120

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 120
Publication Number	SB 13181 = O.Erem. 3

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 78 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 Melanthis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Melanthis (son of Hermodotos) praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Melanthis for laographia of year 10 of Vespasian, paid by Asklepiades, son of Bassus, with signature of Melanthis
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	διέγραψε Ἀσκληπιάδης
2	Βάσσου ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας δεκάτου
3	(ἔτους) Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4	Μεσορὴ ι̅γ̅ τὰς λοιπὰς ἀργυρίου
5	δραχμὰς ὠγκτώ ¹ l. ὀκτώ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.
6	Μελάνθις ἔγραψα.

¹ l. ὀκτώ

convex

1	Thus has paid Asklepiades,
2	son of Bassus, for poll tax of the tenth
3	year of Vespasian the lord,
4	Mesore 13, the remaining silver
5	drachmas eight, = 8 dr.
6	Melanthis, I have written.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13325	man	Asklepiades, son of Bassos	Ἀσκληπιάδης Βάσσου	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Vespasian	10	Mesore	13	78 August 6 CE	date in text;

Literature

Reiter, Fabian, Vorschläge zu Lesung und Deutung einiger Steuerquittungen aus Elephantine (2018). (63)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVIII (Nr. 13083-14068) (1993). (no. 13181)
Zereteli, Grigorij Filimonovic, Griechische Ostraka in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage in St. Petersburg (1913). (no. 3)

DatasetID	310216
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	18268
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.erem;;3
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310216 (= Ostr. St. Petersburg, Hermitage O. 120), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.