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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 4

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 4
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Publication Status unpublished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 116 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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 badly abraded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for harbor guard (hormophylakia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Antonius Malchaios, head of the harbour guard of Syene, for harbour fees (enhormion) for cargoes made from Pachon until Mesore, paid by Ammonios, son of NN, with signature of Antonius Malchaios
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαιος ὁ ἀσχολοῦμενος
2τὴν ὁρμοφυλακίαν Σοήνης Ἀμμωνίῳ
3 Ψενθινερμογέν̣ο̣υ̣ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ
4τὸ ἐνόρμιον ἀγωγίων ὧν ἐποιήσου
5τὰ ἀπὸ Παχὼν ἕως Μεσορὴ λ̅
6τοῦ ι̅θ̅ ? (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου
7Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ̅.
8Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖος ἀπέχω.
convex
1 Antonius Malchaius, the agent
2of the harbour guard of Syene to Ammonios,
3son of Psenthinhermogenes?, greetings. Ich have received from you
4the harbour fees for the cargo you have made
5from Pachon to Mesore 30
6of year 19? of Traianus Optimus
7Caesar the lord, Mesore 30.
8(2. h.) Antonius Malchaius, I have received.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15530 man Antonios Malchaios Ἀντῶνις Μαλχαοῖς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 19 Mesore 30 116 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316258
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 316258 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 4), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .