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Ostr. London, British Library 12122

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12122
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Publication Status unpublished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 147 and 149
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and bottom

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 and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Ammonios I
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y
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 Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred gate of Soene through Ammonios, assistant, for poll tax, paid by Psentithiois, son of P--- and the mother Thinbienchis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ζήνων μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης
2διὰ Ἀμμωνίου βοηθ(οῦ). διέγραψεν
3Ψεντιθιοις Π -10?- μητ(ρὸς)
4Θινβιήνχεως ὑ̣π(ὲρ) λαο(γραφίας) .. (ἔτους) ῥυπ(αρὰς)
5δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ ὀβολ(ὸν)
6(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). (ἔτους) ι̅ ̣
7Ἀντωνίνου
8Κ̣αίσαρος
8+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
2through Ammonios, assistant. Thus has paid
3Psentithiois, son of P--- and the mother
4Thinbienchis, for poll tax of year ?, brutto,
5seventeen drachmas one obol,
6= 17 dr. 1 ob. Year ?
7of Antoninus
8Caesar
8+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    12570 man Ammonios I scribe Αμμωνιος Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 147 CE 149 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term: year 11 and 12 of Antoninus ;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316297
    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 316297 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12122), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .