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Ostr. London, British Library 12081

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12081
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Publication Status unpublished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 167 and 168
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 of Marcus Annius Nemonianus
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Hierax and Herodes, supervisors, through the assistants Marcus Annius Nemonianus and Serenos Junior, for the survey tax on palm groves, paid by P---, on account of NN, son of Bienchis and another person.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἱερὰξ καὶ Ἡρώδης ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς
2πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Μάρκου Ἀννίου Νεμω-
3νιανοῦ καὶ Σερήνου νεωτ(έρου) βοηθ(ῶν?).
4διέγραψεν Π -?- ὑπ(ὲρ) γεομ(ετρίας) φοινικ(ῶνος)
5γενήματος ζ (ἔτους) ὀνόμ(ατος) ΝΝ
6Βιήνχεως καὶ ὀνό̣μ(ατος) ΝΝ
7δραχμὰς τρῖς̣ τ̣ -?-. (ἔτους) η
8Α̣ὐρηλίων Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου
9Κ̣αισάρ̣ων τῶν κυρίων Ἀρμενιακῶν
10Μ̣ηδι̣κ̣ῶν Παρθικῶν μεγίστων
11[ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣[ -?- ]
convex
1Hierax and Herodes, supervisors of the Sacred
2Gate of Syene, through Marcus Annius Nemo-
3nianus and Serenos Junior, assistants.
4Thus has paid P--- for the survey tax on palm groves
5of the harvest of year 7, on account of NN,
6son of Bienchis, and on account of NN ,
7drachmas three ---. Year 8
8Aurelius Antoninus and Aurelius Verus
9Caesares the lords Armeniaci
10Medici Parthici Maximi
11---
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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
    12505 man Herodes epiteretes Herodes Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Marcus Aurelius + Verus 08 167 CE 168 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316274
    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 316274 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12081), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .