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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1886

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1886
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Publication Status unpublished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 146 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 Sarapion I
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred gate of Soene through Ammonios, assistant, for trade tax, paid by Petemeaus, son of Onnophris, in year 9 of Antoninus.
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
1Ζήνων Ἡρακλείδου μισθω̣τ̣ὴς
2ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαρα̣πίωνος
3βοηθο̣ῦ. διέγραψεν Πετεμε-
4αυς Ὀννωφριος ὑπὲρ χειρωνα-
5ξίου τοῦ η (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου
6Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς
7εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον).
8(ἔτους) θ Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ κυρίο̣υ̣
9Τῦβι ιϛ̣.
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer
2of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through Sarapion,
3assistant. Thus has paid Peteme-
4aus, son of Onnophris, for trade tax
5of year 8 of Antoninus
6Caesar the lord, brutto, drachmas
7twenty obols two, = 20 dr. 2 ob.
8In year 9 of Antoninus the lord,
9Tybi 16.
OGL_1886_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
40440 man Petemeaus, son of Onnophris Πετεμεαυς Ὀννωφριος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 09 Tybi 16 146 January 11 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

OGL_1886_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317827
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 317827 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1886), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.