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Ostr. Bristol, H2389

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Bristol, H2389
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Publication Status	unpublished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	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
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	(other)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Hudd, Alfred Edmond Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 129 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	upper left corner broken away
Comments on Object	Red pot sherd with black painted Greek writing on one side (black accretions on top of this).

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 broken away
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion 1
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Apollonios, supervisor of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through his assistant Sarapion, for survey tax on palm groves of the harvest of year 13, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pithodoros, in year 14 of Hadrian.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	text of N. Gonis
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
31355	man	Apollonios, epiteretes	Ἀπολλώνιος	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	14	Choiak	21	129 December 17 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	311055
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer, Nick Gonis
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 311055 (= Ostr. Bristol, H2389), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Nick Gonis.