Ostr. London, British Library 12474

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 12474
Publication Number	ined
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

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 Type	ostracon
Dating	between 150 and 153
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right and bottom

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 On the sixth line the ink bled on the left side.
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of scribe of Domitius Fannianus
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution (merismos)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pelaias, son of Petearensnouphis (praktor+ scribe)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Iulius Kornelianus and Germanos, collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, for merismoi
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Ἰούλιος Κορνηλια̣νὸς καὶ
2	Πελαίας πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντ(ίνης). διεγραψεν
3	Πανάποτις Παχω̣το -?-
4	Παχω̣τις και Π ̣ ̣υσι -?-
5	ῥυπαρὰς ἕ̣κ(αστος?) (δραχμὰς) β, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ, ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν ? (ἔτους)
6	Ἀν̣των̣ί̣ν̣ου Κα̣ι̣σαρος τοῦ κυρίου
7	-?- ̣ Ἰούλιος Κορνηλιανὸς -?-
8	-?- ̣ ̣ traces demotic? -?-
9	-?- … -?-
y	- - - - - - - - -

convex

1	Iulius Cornelianus and
2	Pelaias, collectors of money taxes at Elephantine. Has paid
3	Panapotis, son of Pachoto---
4	--- and Pa---
5	brutto each 2 dr., = 4 dr., for contributions of year ?
6	of Antoninus Caesar the lord.
7	--- (h 2) Iulius Cornelianus ---
8	---
9	---
y	- - - - - - - - -

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius				150 CE 153 CE	date according to the collector's time of office: Antoninus 14-16;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316337
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 316337 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12474), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .