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Ostr. London, British Library 12147

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12147
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Publication Status unpublished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 128 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for harbor guard (hormophylakia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Palachemis, son of Zmentpos, to Hatpes, son of Tyrannos, for fees of the harbour guard (enhormion?) of the month Payni of year 12 of Hadrian
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Παλαχῆμις Ζμεντπῶτος Ἁτπητι Τυρ̣άνν̣ο̣υ̣ χ̣(αίρειν).
2ὁμοίως ἔχω μηνὸς Παυνι
3τοῦ ιβ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
4τοῦ κυρίου ἐπὶ λόγου
5(δραχμὰς) δ̣.
convex
1Palachemis, son of Zmentpos to Hatpes, son of Tyrannos, greeting.
2Ditto, I have received for/in? the month Payni
3of year 12 of Hadrian Caesar
4the lord, on account
54? dr.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30430 man Hatpes, son of Tyrannos pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 12 Payni 128 May 26 CE 128 June 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316308
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 316308 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12147), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .