Ostr. London, British Library 16015
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, British Library 16015 |
| 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unpublished |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 131 and |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
broken at left and right side. |
| Comments on Object |
five parallel incisions above the top margin - decorative element of vessel? pottery marks? |
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) |
break left and right |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of Phanophis |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) |
| 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 Antiochos Kassianos, Arrius Publianus, Iulius Maximus and their associate supervisors of the Sacred gate of Soene through the assistant Phanophis for trade tax of year 15, probably paid in year 16. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Ἀντίοχος Κασιανὸς καὶ
Ἄρριος
Πουπλιανὸς καὶ
Ἰούλιος
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2 | | Μάξιμος καὶ
οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτηρηταὶ
ἱερᾶς
πύλης
Σοήνης
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3 | | δι(ὰ)
Φανῶφ(εως) βοηθ(οῦ). διέγραψεν Κ̣λ̣ι̣οστρα̣το̣ς?
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4 | | -?-
χειρωναξίου
ιε (ετους) δραχμὰς εἴκοσι -?- |
5 | | -?- (ἔτους) ιε
Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Χοιακ -?-
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1 | | Antiochos Cassianus and Arrius Publianus and Iulius
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2 | | Maximus and their associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of
Syene|
3 | | through Phanophis, assistant. Has paid Kliostratos?|
4 | | --- for trade tax of year 15 drachmas twenty ---|
5 | | --- In year 15 of
Hadrian the lord, Choiak ---
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Hadrian |
16 |
Choiak |
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131 November 28 CE 131 December 27 CE |
date in text; |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
316361 |
| 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 316361 (= Ostr. London, British Library 16015), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer . |
