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Ostr. London, British Library 12129

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12129
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Publication Status unpublished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 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and 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 top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknwon
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣
x+2 -?- vac.
x+3 -?- Καίσαρος
x+4τοῦ κυρίου Χοιὰκ ι̅.
x+5διὰ -?- ἀ̣δελφοῦ
x+6δρ̣αχμὰς δύο (τετρώβολον), (γίνοναται) (δραχμὰς) β (τετρώβολον).
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2---
x+3--- Caesar
x+4the lord, Choiak 10.
x+5through --- the brother
x+6two drachmas 4 ob., = 2 dr. 4 ob.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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
Choiak 10 100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316301
last Change 15.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316301 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12129), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .