Ostr. London, British Library 12475
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 12475 |
| 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unpublished |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 125 and 128 |
| Criteria for Dating |
date according to tax collector's time of office |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
broken at left, right and bottom |
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 left, bottom and right side |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of Sarapion 1 |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
6 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for unknown tax |
| Ancient Archives |
none |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Receipt of Flavius Eutyches, tax farmer (misthotes) of the Sacred Gate of Syene, and Longinus Crispus, and associate supervisors, through the assitant Sarapion, for unknown tax |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Φλάουιος
Εὐτύχης
μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)
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2 | | Σοήνης καὶ Λονγεῖνος Κρίσπος
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3 | | καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶι ἐπιτηρητ(αὶ)|
4 | | δ̣ιὰ
Σαραπίωνος βοηθοῦ
διέγραψ(εν)
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5 | |
Πετόρζμηθις ὁ καὶ -?-
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6 | | -?-
ου μ(ητρὸς) Σεντ ̣ -?-
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7 | | -?-
̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
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y | | - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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1 | | Flavius Eutyches, tax farmer of
the Sacred Gate |
2 | | of Syene, and Longinus Crispus |
3 | | and his
associaate supervisors,|
4 | | through Sarapion, assistant. Has paid |
5 | | Petorzmethis alias --- , son of |
6 | | --- and the mother
Sent----, |
7 | | --- |
y | | - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
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125 CE 128 CE |
date according to the collector's time of office; Hadrian 10 - 12; |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
316338 |
| 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 316338 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12475), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer . |
