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Ostr. London, British Library 12073

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12073
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Publication Status unpublished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
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a receipt for contribution
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Fragment of a receipt for a contribution
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1-?- πρακτ ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφ̣αντίνης
2-?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3-?- ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
4-?- ου
5-?- ̣
5+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1-?- collector of money taxes at Elephantine
2-?- ---
3-?- for the contribution
4-?- ---
5-?- ---
5+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BriLib_ostracon_12073_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12073r_ir_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BriLib_ostracon_12073_
Reserved Copyright
BL_12073v_ir_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Ἐλεφ̣αντίνης (places.xml#3)
    		•

     

    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

     

    Pictures

    BriLib_ostracon_12073_
    Reserved Copyright
    BL_12073r_ir_S1_001
    Reserved Copyright
    BriLib_ostracon_12073_
    Reserved Copyright
    BL_12073v_ir_S2_001
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316271
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 316271 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12073), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .