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Ostr. London, British Library 14101

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 14101
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Publication Status unpublished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 -118 and -117
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for pasture tax (ennomion)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for pasture tax (ennomion) of a first year of an unknown ptolemaic ruler, for 1 sheep, paid by the woman Takaos.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender woman as taxpayer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ἔτους νγ Παχ̣ω̣ν̣.
2τέτακται ἐννο-
3μίου Τακαως της υ̣β̣?
4προβ̣ά̣του α χαλκοῦ (δραχμὰς)
5χ (γίνονται) χ . Πρω̣τ̣ό̣μ̣α̣χος
1In year 53, Pachon.
2Has paid for pasture
3tax Takaos ---
4for 1 sheep copper drachmas
5600, = 600. Protomachos(?).
BL_14101_S1_001
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BL_14101_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II 53 Pachons -118 BCE -117 BCE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_14101_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_14101_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316872
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 316872 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14101), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .