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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 7

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 7
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Publication Status unpublished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 98 and 99
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, surface abraded and damaged.

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, surface abraded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Hermogenes praktor for poll tax of year 2 of Trajan.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1[διέγραψ(εν)] Πάτχναυτις Πετ -?-
2[ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρ]αφ(ίας) β (ἔτους) Τραειανο(ῦ) Καίσαρος
3τοῦ κυρίου ἀ̣ρ̣γ̣(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) ις. Ἑρμογένης
4 traces -?-
convex
1Has paid Patchnautis, son of Pet---
2for poll tax of year 2 of Traianus Caesar
3the lord, silver dr. 16. Hermogenes
4---
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 02 98 CE 99 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316261
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 316261 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 7), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .