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Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 12

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 12
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Publication Status unpublished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 200 and 299
Criteria for Dating palaeography
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 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contributions
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for merismoi of donkeys? annona of the lord is mentioned
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Παρασ .... Πετορ -?-
2Πετε και οι σὺν αὐτ- -?-
3κατασταθέντων π -?-
4των ἀρχοντ- τοῦ ᾱ ̣ -?-
5Πετόρζμηθις ὁ καὶ ̣ -?-
6ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ὄν̣ω̣ν̣ ιζ (ἔτους) ̣ ̣ελ̣ -?-
7πεμθέντων εἰς τὴν̣ επ̣ -?-
8ἀννώνας τοῦ κυρίου ̣ -?-
9(δραχμὴν) α χαλκίνην (ἡμιωβέλιον) γί(νονται) (δραχμὴ) α̣ ̣ -?-
10Παυνι -?-
convex
1Paras--- Petor---
2Pete --- and his associate ---
3of the subordinate ---
4of the archontes of the 1st ---
5Petorzmethis alias ---
6for the contribution of donkeys of year 17 ---
7sent to the ---
8annonai of the lord ---
91 dr. + chalkine half obol, = 1 dr. ---
10Payni ---
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
200 CE 299 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316266
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 316266 (= Ostr. London, British Library Egerton 12), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .