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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 2

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 2
Publication Number ined
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 10 11 1962 and
Finder (= First Purchaser) E. Ohly (Egerton-Ostraca)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top, left and right

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 top, left and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for customs duties
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for customs duties for pitch and other items
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1] ̣ ̣ [
x+2]ντε ἀράκου ̣  ̣[
x+3] πίσσης ξηρᾶς σφ̣[υρίδια
x+4κ]οντα τὸ γεινόμ[ενον τέλος
x+5] ̣ ̣ ̣τερο̣υ̣
convex
x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2]---five?, arakos (wild chickling) ---
x+3] dry pitch sphyridia (measure) ---
x+4--- -ty the appropriate tax
x+5---
egerton_ostracon_f2r_S
Reserved Copyright
egerton_ostracon_f2v_S
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

egerton_ostracon_f2r_S
Reserved Copyright
egerton_ostracon_f2v_S
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316256
last Change 15.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316256 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .