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Ostr. London, British Library 12087

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12087
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Publication Status unpublished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 119 and
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, scribe of Sanmous
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats of year 3 and 2 of Hadrian; written by the scribe Sarapion.
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
1Σανμοὺς πράκ(τωρ). διέγρ(αψεν)
2Παχνοῦβις -5?-
3ζμηθ? Πετρο -3?- ὑπ(ὲρ)
4μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλ(ακίδων) γ (ἔτους)
5Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
6ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δύο καὶ ὑπὲρ β (ἔτους) τριώβ(ολον).
7Μεχὶρ κ̅ε̅. Σαραπὶων γραματεὺς ἔγραψα.
convex
1Sanmous, collector. Thus has paid
2Pachnoubis, son of --- (Petor-?)
3zmeth(is?) (grandson of?) Petro? --- for
4contribution for river police boats of year 3
5of Hadrian the lord,
6silver drachmas two, and of year 3, three obols.
7Mechir 25. Sarapion, scribe, I have written.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30205 man Pachnoubis, son of ---Petorzmethis Petro??? Παχνοῦβις -5?- ζμηθ(?) Πετρο -3?- pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 03 Mecheir 25 119 February 19 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316278
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 316278 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12087), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .