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Ostr. London, British Library 12078

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12078
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Publication Status unpublished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 161 and 162
Criteria for Dating date in text
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 of Pachnoubis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Pachnoubis, for poll tax of year 2 of Marc Aurel and Verus, paid by NN, son of Ammonios and the mother NN.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὔλπιος Κερε̣α̣λις μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλης
2Σοήνης διὰ Π̣αχνουβις βοηθοῦ.
3 -9?- ις Ἀμμωνίου μη̣τρὸς
4 -8?- ὑπ(ὲρ) λ̣α̣ογραφίας β (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δ̣έ̣-
5κα ἑπτὰ (ὀβολόν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). (ἔτους) β -?-
5+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate
2of Syene, through the assistant Pachnoubis.
3NN, son of Ammonios and the mother
4NN, for poll tax of year 2, drachmas
5seventeen one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. Year 2 ---
5+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    30155 man NN, son of Ammonios and NNis -9?- ις Ἀμμωνίου μη̣τρὸς -8?- pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Marcus Aurelius + Verus 02 161 CE 162 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316273
    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 316273 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12078), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .