Ostr. London, British Library 14053
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 14053 |
| 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unpublished |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 119 and 120 |
| 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. Text is very faded |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of Sarapion |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
9 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for poll tax (laographia) |
| Ancient Archives |
none |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | receipt
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for laographia, paid by Petorzmethis, son of NN and Senpachnoubis; installments. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ
λοιποὶ μισθ(ωταὶ) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοή(νης)
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2 | | διὰ
Σα̣ρ̣α̣π̣ί̣ω̣ν̣ο̣ς̣. δι̣έ̣γ̣ρ̣α̣ψ(εν) Πετόρ-
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3 | | ζμηθι̣ς̣ ὁ̣ καὶ̣ Π̣άρι̣ς̣
Πετ̣ορζμήθεως
μητ(ρὸς)
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4 | | Σενπαχνούβιος
λαογραφίας
τετάρτου
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5 | | ἔτους Ἁδριανου Καίσαρος του κυρίου
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6 | | δραχμὰς δέκα δύο, (γίνονται)
(δραχμαὶ) [ |
7 | | (ἔτους) δ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου |
8 | | traces |
9 | | traces
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1 | | Valerion and the other tax farmers of the Sacred Gate
of Syene |
2 | | through Sarapion. Has paid Petor-|
3 | | zmethis alias Paris, son of Petorzmethis and the mother |
4 | | Senpachnoubis, for poll tax of the fourth |
5 | | year of Hadrian Caesar
the lord |
6 | | twelve drachmas, = 12 dr. |
7 | | In year 4 of Hadrian
the lord, |
8 | | --- |
9 | | ---
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
04 |
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119 CE 120 CE |
date in text; |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
316347 |
| last Change |
18.08.2022 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 316347 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14053), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer . |
