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Ostr. London, British Library 5836

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 5836
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Publication Status unpublished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: 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 142 and 143
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution (merismos)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Soter for merismos of year 6 of Antoninus, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia, with signature of Soter.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σωτὴρ πράκτωρ ἀ̣ργ(υρικῶν) Ἐλεφ(αντίνης). διέγρα(ψεν)
2Πατσίβτις Πετορζμήθου μητ(ρὸς)
3Σενπελαίας ὑπὲρ μ̣ερισμ(οῦ) ς (ἔτους)
4Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
5ῥυπαρὰν δραχμὴν α (τετρώβολον), Φαρμουθι
6Σωτὴρ σεσημείομαι.
convex
1Soter, collector of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid
2Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother
3Senpelaia, for the contribution of year 6
4of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
5brutto, 1 drachma 4 ob., Pharmouthi ?.
6(2dn H.) Soter, I have signed.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Ἐλεφ(αντίνης) (places.xml#3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    4791 man Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia, grandson of Psansnos Πατσιβτις Πετορζμήθου Σενπελαίας, τοῦ Ψανσνῶτ(ος) (WO 125) Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 06 Pharmuthi 143 March 27 CE 143 April 25 CE year according to the collector's time of office;

     

    Pictures

    BL_5836_S1_001
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    BL_5836_f001v_S2_001
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    BL_5836ir_S1_001
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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 316876
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 316876 (= Ostr. London, British Library 5836), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.