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Ostr. London, British Library 12140

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12140
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Publication Status unpublished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 137 and 148
Criteria for Dating date according to scribe's time of activity
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 Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
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 Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1Π̣α̣χνουβι[ -?-
x+2ὀκτώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η -?-
x+3Καίσαρος τοῦ ̣ -?-
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1Pachnoubis ---
x+2eight, = 8 dr. ---
x+3Caesar the lord ---
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30265 man Pachnoubis (fragment) Παχνοῦβις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
137 CE 148 CE date according to scribe's time of activity;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316306
last Change 19.08.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316306 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12140), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .