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Ostr. London, British Library 12089

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12089
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Publication Status unpublished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 71 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 unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (χειρωναξίου)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) of year 3 of Vespasian, paid by Amenophis, son of Pach--
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok spuren am Ende?
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ἀμε̣ν̣ῶφις Παχ -?-
2ὑπὲρ χειροναξίου ἀργυρίου (δρ.) η, γ (ἔτους) Οὐεσπασιανοῦ
3Τῦβι ιθ. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
convex
1Thus has paid Amenopis, son of Pach---
2for trade tax silver dr. 8. Year 3 of Vespasian,
3Tybi 19. ---?
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30210 man Amenophis, son of Pach--- Αμε̣ν̣ωφις Παχ -?- pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Vespasian 03 Tybi 19 71 January 14 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316279
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 316279 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12089), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .