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Ostr. London, British Library 12098

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12098
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Publication Status unpublished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 105 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
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, hand of Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of practor Hermogenes for laographia of year 7 of Trajan
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
1διέγραψ(εν) -?- χ̣ος̣ Πασήνεος τοῦ Θε̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
2ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογραφ(ίας) ἑβδόμ̣ου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ
3Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δέκα ἑπτὰ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
4σὺν αἷς ἔσχον κατὰ μ̣ερο̣υ 1l. μέρος. Ἑρμογένης
5Ἀμμωνᾶτος πράκ̣τωρ ἔγραψα. (ἔτους) η Τραειανοῦ
6Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ δ̅.

1 l. μέρος
convex
1Thus has paid ---chos, son of Pasenis, grandson of The---,
2for poll tax of the seventh year of Trajan
3Caesar the lord, silver drachmas seventeen, = 17 dr.,
4including those (drachmas) which I received bit by bit. Hermogenes,
5son of Ammonas, collector, I have written. Year 8 of Trajan
6Caesar the lord, Mesore 4.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30200 man ---chos, son of Pasenis, grandson of The--- ?- χ̣ος̣ Πασήνεος τοῦ Θε̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 08 Mesore 04 105 July 28 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316284
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 316284 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12098), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .