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Ostracon 5812
- Record Id:
- 040-003450117
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003450097
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076319527.0x000015
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147475875.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ostracon 5812
- Title:
- Receipt for contribution (merismos) (O.Wilck. II 205, TM 76773)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt of Papremithes and Bienchis, tax collectors (praktores argyrikon) of Elephantine, for contribution (merismos) of year 9 of Antoninus, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Thinpelaia. Belongs to the archive of Patsibtis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ostraca Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003450097
040-003450117 - Is part of:
- Ostracon 5790-63860 : Ostraca collection
Ostracon 5812 : Receipt for contribution (merismos) (O.Wilck. II 205, TM 76773) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003450097[0020]/040-003450117
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ostracon 5790-63860
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 pottery sherd inscribed on convex side, complete, 5 lines, housed in a carboard box.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147475875.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0146
- End Date:
- 0146
- Date Range:
- 4 May 146
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Pottery.
Dimensions: 92 x 112 x 7 mm.
Script: documentary, cursive, small, irregular, hand of the scribe of praktor Papremithis (with Soter or Bienchis).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt.
Provenance: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt. Purchased from Henry Salt (b.1780, d. 1827) in 1823.
- Former External References:
- O.Wilck. II 205
- Publications:
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T. Young, Hieroglyphics (1828) 53 VII.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien, ein Beitrag zur Antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig-Berlin: von Giesecke & Devrient 1899), vol. 2, p. 60-61, no. 205; BM 5812.
K. A. Worp, The Bankes Ostraka from a box at Kingston Lacy: the Greek Texts (Messina: Sicania University Press 2016), pp. 11-12.
R. Duttenhöfer, 'Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine III: Anmerkungen zu O. Bankes und verwandten Texten', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017), pp. 221-226.
Metadata provided by ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)