Ostr. London, British Library 14093

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Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 14093
Publication Number	ined
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos] Certainty:
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]

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 upper right corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for customs duties
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for customs dues on wheat and lentils
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Πτολεμαῖ<ο>ς κ̣[ -4?-
2	βη-? βωηθὸς ̣ -?-
3	νωνωνης αρχ -?-
4	διας καὶ ερμη-? καὶ ν ¹l. πεντηκοστῆς? -?-
5	Ἀβύδου τοῦ ς (ἔτους) Ἀντονίνου
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Σαρα-
7	πάμμων χαίρειν. ἔσχον
8	παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐν-
9	βέβληκας ἐν Π̣ι̣α̣-? πυροῦ καὶ
10	φάκου ἀρτάβων ἕκα-
11	τον εἴκοσε πέντε
12	τὸ κάθηκον τέλος Φαρμουθι
13	ιε.

¹ l. πεντηκοστῆς?

convex

1	Ptolemaios and? ---
2	-be---, assistant ---
3	--- ? ---
4	--- and erme-? and of the 2 % tax?
5	of Abydos of year 6 of Antoninus
6	Caesar the lord, to Sara-
7	pammon, greeting. I have received
8	from you for the goods you have
9	put on board ship in Pia---?, for wheat and
10	lentil artabas one
11	hundred fifty five
12	the appropriate tax, Pharmouthi
13	15.

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	06	Pharmuthi	15	143 April 10 CE	date in text;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316871
last Change	15.08.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316871 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14093), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .