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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1576

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1576
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Publication Status	unpublished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 118 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and 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 left and right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, Sarapion 1
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers of the Sacred Gate of Syene through the scribe Sarapion, for survey tax for date groves (geometria phoinikonos), paid by Petorzmethis, son of Psan---, in year 3 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

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1	Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς
2	πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος
3	γρ(αμματέως). διέγραψ(εν) Πετόρζμηθις Ψ̣αν̣ -?-
4	-11-13- γεομ(ετρίας) φοινικῶνος
5	γενή(ματος) β (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
6	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς ὀκτὼι ¹l. ὀκτώ ὀβ̣ολ(οὺς)
7	δύο ἡμιωβέλ(ιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η (διώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον). (ἔτους) γ̣ Ἁδριανοῦ
8	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυ̣ρ̣ί̣ο̣υ̣ Τῦβι α̅.

¹ l. ὀκτώ

convex

1	Valerion and the other tax farmers of the Sacred
2	gate of Syene, through Sarapion,
3	scribe. Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Psan---
4	--- for survey tax for date groves
5	of the harvest of year 2 of Hadrian Caesar
6	the lord, drachmas eight obols
7	two and a half, = 8 dr 2 1/2 ob. In year 3 of Hadrian
8	Caesar the lord, Tybi 1.

OGL_1576_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	03	Tybi	01	118 September 27 CE	date in text;

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OGL_1576_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317791
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 317791 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1576), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.