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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 10

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 10
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Publication Status unpublished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 16 4 1966 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 139 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for customs duties
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Nemonius Longus and Sokrates---, customs officers of the harbour of Syene, for the import of wheat, lentils, oil and barly, paid by Sansnos, son of ---.
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
1Νεμώνιος Λόνγος καὶ Σωκράτης -?-
2ἐπιτηρηταὶ πεντηκοστῆς λι̣μενὸς Σοήνης Σανσνῶτι [ΝΝ]
3χαίρειν. ἀπέσχομεν παρὰ σοῦ τὸ γεινόμενον τέλος
4οὗ 1l. ὧν εἰσηξας 2l. εισήγαγες (πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβας) ρν, φακοῦ (ἀρτάβας) ?
5ἐλαίου μετρ̣ητὴν α, κριθῆς (ἀρτάβας) ?, -?-
6(ἀρτάβας) γ. (ἔτους) β Ἀδριανου Κ ντωνείνου τοῦ κυρίου
7Μεχιρ -?-

1 l. ὧν
2 l. εισήγαγες
convex
1Nemonius Longus and Sokrates ---,
2supervisors of the 2% tax of the harbour of Syene, to Sansnos ---
3greeting. We have received from you the appropriate tax
4for goods you have imported, 150 artabas of wheat, ? art. of lentil,
51 metretes of oil, ? artabas of barley, ---
63 artabas. In year 2 of Antoninus the lord,
7Mechir ---
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18480 man Nemonios Longos telones Νεμώνιος Λόνγος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 02 Mecheir 139 January 26 CE 139 February 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316264
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 316264 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 10), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .