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Ostr. London, British Library 12473

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12473
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Publication Status unpublished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 164 and
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 Petorzmethis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Valerius Serenus and Palachemis, the two praktores argyrikon of Elephantine, through Petorzmethis, assistant, for unknown tax, paid in year 4 of Marc Aurel and Verus
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὐαλέριο̣ς Σερῆνος καὶ Παλαχῆμις̣ οἱ β̅ πράκ(τορες) ἀργ(υρικῶν) Ἐλεφαντ(ίνης) διὰ
2Πετόρζμη(θις) βοηθ(οῦ). διέγρ(αψεν) -?-
3Ἀμμωνίου ̣ -?-
4(ἔτους) δ Ἀντωνίνου̣ καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων
5Ἐπειφ ις
convex
1Valerius Serenus and Palachemis, the two collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, through
2Petorzmethis, assistant. Has paid ---
3son of Ammonios ---
4In year 4 of Antoninus and Verus Caesares the lords,
5Epeiph 16.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4242 man Palachemis praktor Παλαχῆμις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
marcus Aurelius + Verus 04 Epeiph 16 164 July 10 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316336
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 316336 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12473), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .