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Ostr. London, British Library 12095

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12095
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Publication Status unpublished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 117 and 138
Criteria for Dating reign of Hadrian
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for unidentified tax
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of unknown collector for unknown tax, paid by Petorzmethis ---, 5 dr., reign of Hadrian
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- Ἐλεφαντίνης. διέγραψεν Πετορζ-
2μηθις -?- ουθ̣ ̣ ̣ μητ(ρὸς) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣(?)
3 -?- ̣ιου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) πεντε
4 -?- Ἀ̣δριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
5 -?-
convex
1--- of Elephantine. thus has paid Petorz-
2methis, son of ---outh--- and the mother ---
3---, five silver drachmas
4--- year ? of Hadrian the lord
5(month, day).
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BL_12095r_ir_S1_001
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BL_12095v_ir_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
32660 man Petorzmethis, son of ---outh--- Πετορζ- μηθις -?- ουθ̣ ̣ ̣ pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 117 CE 138 CE reign of Hadrian;

 

Pictures

BriLib_ostracon_12095_
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BL_12095r_ir_S1_001
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BriLib_ostracon_12095_
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BL_12095v_ir_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316282
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 316282 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12095), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .