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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 5

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 5
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Publication Status unpublished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 133 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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left
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 poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Iulius Sabinus and Gellius Perses and their associate supervisors of Syene for poll tax of year 17 of Hadrian, paid by Ammonios, son of NN and the mother Senpetorzmethis
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἰούλ̣ιος Σαβεῖνος καὶ Γέλλιος Πέρσου καὶ οἱ
2σὺν α(ὐτῷ) ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψεν Ἀμμώνιος̣
3-?- μητρὸς Σενπετορζμήθιος ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ ἑπτακαιδεκάτου
4ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπ[τὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσ(μοφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ ιζ (ὀβολός).]
5(ἔτους) ιζ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ ζ̅. -?-
convex
1Iulius Sabinus and Gellius Perses and their
2associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Has paid Ammonios,
3son of --- and the mother Senpetorzmethis, for poll tax of the seventeenth
4year of Hadrian the lord, seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.
5Year 17 of Hadrian the lord, Mesore 7.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
21970 man Gellius Perses epiteretes Γέλλιος Πέρσης Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 17 Mesore 17 133 August 10 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316259
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 316259 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 5), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .