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Ostr. London, British Library 13986

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 13986
Publication Number	ined
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: low
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Krall, Jakob Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 98 and 109
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at 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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of praktor Hermogenes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of praktor Hermogenes for laographia of an unknown year o Trajan; with signature of Hermogenes
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4443	man	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor	Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan				98 CE 109 CE	date according to the collector's time of office during the time of Trajan;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316364
last Change	15.08.2022
Trismegistos	76663
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316364 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13986 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.