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Ostr. London, British Library 14056

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14056
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Publication Status unpublished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 115 and 116
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, ink faded

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. Faded ink in sections of the text
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sarapion 1
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) und prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax of year 19 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of Phanophis and the mother Tachomtbekis, written by the scribe Sarapion 1, probably for the praktor Didymion.
Location of Composition Elephantine / 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
convex
1διέγραψ(εν) Ἁρπαήσις Φανώ-
2φεως μητρὸς Ταχομτβη-
3κιος λαογραφίας ιθ (ἔτους) Τ̣ρ̣α̣ι̣α̣νοῦ̣
4Ἀρίστου τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς
5ιζ (ὀβολόν), traces
6 -?- (δραχμὴν) α (τριώβολον). δι Σαραπίωνος Ἐπ̣ε̣ι̣φ κ ̣?
7 -?- κβ
convex
1Has paid Harpaesis, son of Phano-
2phis and the mother Tachomtbe-
3kis, for poll tax of year 19 of Traianus
4Optimus the lord, drachmas
517 obol 1, ---
6--- 1 dr. 3 ob. Through Sarapion, Epeiph 20?.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12440 man Harpaesis, son of Phanophis and Tachomtbekis Harpaesis Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 19 22 115 CE 116 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316349
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 316349 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14056), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .