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Ostr. London, British Library 12451

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 12451
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Publication Status	unpublished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 161 and 169
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top and left

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 on top and left and lower right corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand???
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of unknown collector for unknown tax of the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Verus in two instalments
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
marcus Aurelius + Verus				161 CE 169 CE	date of the reigen of Marcus Aurelius and Verus;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316332
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 316332 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12451), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .