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Ostr. London, British Library 12156

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12156
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Publication Status unpublished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 138 and 141
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and bottom
Comments on Object inscribed ring on the concave side

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 Sarapion?
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for unidentified tax
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Beginning of a receipt of Valerios Marion and his associate supervisors (epiteretai) through the assistant Sarapion for unknown tax
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
1Οὐαλέριος Μαρίων κ̣αὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιτηρητ(αὶ)
2 ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος βοηθ(οῦ).
3διέγραψεν Πετόρζμηθις -?-
4Θιψανσνω̣ -?-
5Ἁδριανοῦ̣ -?-
6ῥυπ(αρὰς) -?-
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Valerius Marion and his associate supervisors supervisors
2of the Sacred Gate of Syene through Sarapion, assistant.
3Has paid Petorzmethis ---
4Thinpsansnos ---
5Hadrian ---
6brutto ---
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4246 man Sarapion scribe 1 Σαραπίων Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
138 CE 141 CE date according to the collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316320
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 316320 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12156), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .