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Ostracon 13993
- Record Id:
- 040-003450182
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003450097
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076319527.0x000056
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147475202.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ostracon 13993
- Title:
- Receipt for a prostitute (hetaira) (O.Wilck. II 1157, TM 77560)
- Scope & Content:
- The tax-farmers (telonai) Pelaias and Socration grant to the hetaira Thinabdella the right to sleep on a certain day with whomever she wishes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ostraca Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003450097
040-003450182 - Is part of:
- Ostracon 5790-63860 : Ostraca collection
Ostracon 13993 : Receipt for a prostitute (hetaira) (O.Wilck. II 1157, TM 77560) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003450097[0085]/040-003450182
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ostracon 5790-63860
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 pottery sherd inscribed on convex side, complete, 6 lines, housed in a carboard box.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147475202.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0110
- End Date:
- 0110
- Date Range:
- 7 October 110
- 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: 67 x 100 x 7 mm.
Script: documentary, cursive, small, regular, hand unknown.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt.
Provenance: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt. Purchased from Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) in 1875?.
- Former External References:
- O.Wilck. II 1157
- Former Internal References:
- 5791m
- Publications:
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U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien, ein Beitrag zur Antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig-Berlin: von Giesecke & Devrient 1899), vol. 2, p. 304, no. 1157; BM 13993 (5791m).
F. Bilabel, Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.1 (Berlin: 1929), p. 94, X, p. 305.
H.-A. Rupprecht, K. A. Worp, F. Hoogendijk, Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 327.
R. Ziegler, 'Bemerkungen zur Datierung von Papyri und Ostraka', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 128 (1999), p. 174.
C. A. Nelson, 'Receipt for Tax on Prostitutes', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995), p. 30.
Metadata provided by ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Exhibitions:
- Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)