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Ostr. London, British Library 12084

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12084
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Publication Status unpublished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 141 and 142
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 Sarapion 1
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
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 the tax farmers Herakleides and Isidoros through the assistant Sarapion, for the survey tax on palm groves of year 4 of Antoninus, paid by Thinpsansnos in year 5 of Antoninus.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok photo drehen Sarapion only in year 5 with Herakleides, for the harvest of year 4!
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender woman as taxpayer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἡρακλείδης μ̣ι̣σ̣θ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης
2διὰ Σαραπίωνος βοηθ(οῦ). διέγραψ(εν)
3Θινψανσνῶς ὑπὲρ γεωμετ(ρίας)
4φοιν̣ε̣ικ̣ῶνος γενή̣μ̣α̣[τος τοῦ δ? (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου]
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convex
1Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
2through Sarapion, assistant. Thus has paid
3Thinpsansnos for the survey tax of
4palm groves for the harvest of year 4 of Antoninus
4+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
    12980 man Herakleides misthotes Ἡρακλείδης misthotes Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 05 141 CE 142 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term: year 5 of Antoninus;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316276
    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 316276 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12084), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .