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Ostr. London, British Library 16016

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 16016
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Publication Status unpublished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 112 and 114
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and left

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 top and left Badly preserved, blurry text
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Lucius Aurelius
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of supervisor (epiteretes) Lucius Aurelius for laographia, year 15-17 of Trajan
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
x+2 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣δ̣ρ̣α̣χ(μὰς) ὀκτώ,
x+3 -?- (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. δι Λ̣ο̣υ̣κ̣ί̣ο̣υ̣ Α̣ὐ̣ρ̣η̣λίου
x+4 -?- ὁ̣μοίως τὰς λοιπὰς δραχμὰς ἐννέα
x+5 -?- (γίνονται) ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1---
x+2--- eight drachmas
x+3---? = 8 dr. Through Lucius Aurelius
x+4---?ditto, the remaining drachmas nine
x+5---? = in total 17 dr.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 112 CE 114 CE date according to the collector's time of office, Trajan 15-17;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316362
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 316362 (= Ostr. London, British Library 16016), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .