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Ostr. London, British Library 12163

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12163
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Publication Status unpublished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 129
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 right Sparsely damaged.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Iunius Valens
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Kalasiris through the scribe Iunius Valens for merismos potamophylakidon of year 13 of Hadrian
Location of Composition Elephantine 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
1Καλασῖρις πράκτωρ ἀργ(υρικῶν) διὰ Ἰουνίου Οὐαλ(εντος)
2βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
3μητρὸς Θιενπετορζμήθιος ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμ(οῦ) πο-
4αμοφυλ(ακίδος) του ιγ (ἔτους) ῥυπ(αρ-) ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
5(ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου -?-
convex
1Kalasiris, collector of money taxes, through Iunius Valens,
2assistant. Has paid --- son of --- and
3of the mother Thnpetorzmethis, for the contribution of
4river police boats of year 13, brutto, ---
5In year 13 of Hadrian the lord ---
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12475 man Iunius Valens Iunius Valens Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 13 128 CE 129 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316324
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 316324 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12163), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .