Ostr. Bristol, H2394
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Bristol, H2394 |
| Publication Number |
ined. Gonis |
| Current Location |
BMAG Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication assigned |
| Publication Status |
unpublished |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution |
(unknown) |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Hudd, Alfred Edmond
Certainty: |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating |
between 134 and |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Damage occurred in 1920s
surface broken off and damaged, left upper corner lost
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| Comments on Object |
Red pot sherd with darker surface and black painted Greek writing on one side. The writing is faded and some of the surface with the writing has flaked away. |
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) |
upper left corner lost, surface broken off and damaged |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Script, additional A |
Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Language, additional A |
Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand unknown |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
6 |
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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 Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Receipt of Iulius Sabinus and Gellius Perses and Sansnos and their associate supervisors of Syene for poll tax and prison guards of year 17 of Hadrian, paid by NN, son of NN and the mother Senchnoubis, in year 18 of Hadrian; with demotic subscript |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Bilingual |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Iulius Sabinus and Gellius Perses and Sansnos |
2 | | and their associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid --- |
3 | | ---ros, son of A--- and the mother Senchnoubis, for poll tax of year 17 |
4 | | seventeen drachmas and a half obol, for prison guards a half obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. Year 18 |
5 | | of Hadrian Caesar the lord, Pharmouthi ---
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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 |
| 34500 |
man |
---, son of --- and Senchnoubis |
-?- ρος Αγνωτ? μητρὸς Σενχνούβιος |
pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
18 |
Pharmuthi |
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134 March 27 CE 134 April 25 CE |
date in text; |
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| Bristol_H_2394_S1_002 |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
310468 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer, Nick Gonis (Greek); (Jan Moje Demotic) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 310468 (= Ostr. Bristol, H2394), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Nick Gonis (Greek); (Jan Moje Demotic). |
