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Ostr. London, British Library 41632

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 41632
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Publication Status unpublished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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 98 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
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, hand of Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of practor Hermogenes for laographia of year 1 of Trajan, paid by Zmenpos, son of Bienchis ---, with signature of Hermogenes
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text ok arapoup???
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ζμενπῶς
2Βιήνχεος αραπουπ
3ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας α (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ
4Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
5ἐπὶ λόγου (δραχμὰς) η. ὁμοίως (δραχμὰς) δ.
6ὡ 1l. ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς λυπὰς (δραχμὰς) ε.
7Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. ὁ
convex
1Thus has paid Zmenpos,
2son of Bienchis ---?,
3for poll tax of year 1 of Trajan
4Caesar the lord,
5on account, 8 dr.; ditto, 4 dr.;
6the same the remaining 5 dr.
7Hermogenes, collector, I have written.
BL_41632r_S1_001
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BL_41632v_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 01 98 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

BL_41632r_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
BL_41632v_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316963
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 316963 (= Ostr. London, British Library 41632), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.