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Ostr. London, British Library 5797

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5797
Publication Number ined
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
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]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 129 and 130
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, right and bottom

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, right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Phanophis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and contribution for the men who have fled (merismos andron anakechorekoton)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Antiochos Kassianos and his associate supervisors of the Sacred gate of Soene through the assistant Phanophis for laographia?, desmophylakon? and merismos epikephalaiou anakechorekoton
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀντίοχος Κασσιανὸς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶι ἐπιτηρ(ηταὶ)
2ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης δι Φα̣νώφις βοηθ(οῦ) διεγρ(αψεν)
3Πετόρζμηθις (Πετορζμήθεως) 1the sign / repeats the name as father's name μητρὸς Σενπου--- ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρ(αφίας) ιδ (ἔτους)
4δριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχ(μὰς) δέκα ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσ(μοφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον),
5(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ̣ (ὀβολόν), καὶ ὑπὲρ μερισμο ἐπικεφ̣αλαίο(υ) ἀνακεχ(ωρηκότων) τοῦ ιγ (ἔτους)
6 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣traces -?- ̣δο ̣ -?-
6+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 the sign / repeats the name as father's name
convex
1Antiochos Cassianus and his associate supervisors
2of the Sacred Gate of Syene through Phanophis, assistant. Has paid
3Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother Senpou---, for poll tax of year 14
4of Hadrian the lord drachmas seventeen half obol, for prison guards half obol,
5= 17 dr. 1 ob., and for the contribution for the men who have fled of year 13
6---
6+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BL_5797_S1_001
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BL_5797_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12450 man Antiochos Kassianos epiteretes Antiochos Kasianos epiteretes Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 14 129 CE 130 CE date according to the collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

BL_5797_S1_001
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BL_5797_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316873
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 316873 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5797), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.