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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 3

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 3
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Publication Status unpublished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 left and bottom

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 left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for monthly trade tax
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of tax farmers NN and Pachnoubis the jounger, for brickmaking trade of year 5 of an unknown emperor, for the month Hathyr
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- ̣ καὶ Παχνοῦβις νεω-
2τερος -?- ωνες οἱ δύο μεισθωταὶ
3χειρωναξίου? -?- ωμων καὶ πλινθευ-
4τικῆς -?- (ἔτους) ε Πετερουη ̣ιοι
5 -?- ὑπὲρ μ̣ηνὸς Ἁθυρ (δραχμὴν) α (πεντώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον)
6 -?- καὶ ̣ ̣ -?-
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1--- and Pachnoubis the
2younger --- the two tax farmers
3for trade tax? of --- and brick
4makers --- of year 5 Peteroue---
5--- for the month Hathyr 1 drachma 5,5 obols
6--- and ---
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30515 man Pachnoubis the younger mistotes plintheu. pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316257
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 316257 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .