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Ostr. London, British Library 14176

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. London, British Library 14176
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Publication Status	unpublished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 115 and 116
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at 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 bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand perhaps of praktor Dionysios; same as in OGL 1116 of the same collector.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Dionysios praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Dionysios for trade tax of linen weavers of year 19 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13080	man	Dionysios praktor	Dionysios praktor	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	19			115 CE 116 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316907
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 316907 (= Ostr. London, British Library 14176), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .