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Ostr. London, British Library 12092

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 12092
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Publication Status	unpublished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 172 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top and 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 top and right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Serenos boethos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+2
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragment of a receipt
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Fragment of a receipt containing the end with the date, hand of Serenos
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius	13	Thoth	03	172 August 31 CE	date in text, year incertain;

 

Pictures

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316280
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 316280 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12092), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .