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Ostr. London, British Library 12434

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12434
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Publication Status unpublished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 163 and 164
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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Serenos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
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 Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, and Valerius Serenus and associate supervisors, through the assistant Serenos, for an unknown tax of year 4 of Marc-Aurel and Verus, paid by Panapotis ---
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
1Οὔλπιος Κελεαρις μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης
2καὶ Οὐαλέριος Σερῆνος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτ ἐπιτηρηταὶ
3[τῆς αὐτῆς πύλ(ης) διὰ Σερήνου βοηθ(οῦ). δι]έγραψεν Πανάπωτις
4 -?- τ̣̣ο̣ῦ̣ δ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δέκα (?)
5 -?- ̣υ Κ̣α̣ι̣σ̣άρων
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
2and Valerios Serenos and his associate supervisors
3of the same Gate through the assistant Serenus. Has paid Panapotis
4--- of year 4 10? drachmas
5--- Caesares
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
30445 man Panapotis --- (163-64) pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 04 163 CE 164 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316329
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 316329 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12434), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .