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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1485

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1485
Publication Number ined
Current Location Paris, Musée National du Louvre
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Publication Status unpublished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: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Tuckett, Francis Fox
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 119 and 121
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sarapion I
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for poll tax of year 4 of Hadrian.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὐαλερίω̣ν καὶ οἱ λοιπ(οὶ) μισθ(ωταὶ)
2ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπ(ίωνος)
3διέγραψεν ca. 14-18
4 ̣ ̣ψ̣ανσ ca. 14-18
5λα̣ογ(ραφίας) δ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
6δ̣ραχμὰς ca. 14-18
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Valerion and the other tax farmers
2of the Sacred gate of Syene, through Sarapion.
3Thus has paid ---
4---psans---
5for poll tax of year 4 of Hadrian the lord,
6drachmas ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
OGL_1485_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4246 man Sarapion scribe 1 Σαραπίων Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 119 CE 121 CE date in text, year 4 or 5 of Hadrian;

 

Pictures

OGL_1485_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317772
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 317772 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1485), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.