Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 4

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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Publication Status	unpublished

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]

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

Modern Title	Receipt for harbor guard (hormophylakia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
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

Transcription

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1	Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαιος ὁ ἀσχολοῦμενος
2	τὴν ὁρμοφυλακίαν Σοήνης Ἀμμωνίῳ
3	Ψενθινερμογέν̣ο̣υ̣ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ
4	τὸ ἐνόρμιον ἀγωγίων ὧν ἐποιήσου
5	τὰ ἀπὸ Παχὼν ἕως Μεσορὴ λ̅
6	τοῦ ι̅θ̅ ? (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου
7	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ̅.
8	Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖος ἀπέχω.

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1	Antonius Malchaius, the agent
2	of the harbour guard of Syene to Ammonios,
3	son of Psenthinhermogenes?, greetings. Ich have received from you
4	the harbour fees for the cargo you have made
5	from Pachon to Mesore 30
6	of year 19? of Traianus Optimus
7	Caesar the lord, Mesore 30.
8	(2. h.) Antonius Malchaius, I have received.

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

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

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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 .