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Ostracon 63860/3
- Record Id:
- 040-004546357
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003450097
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100187093405.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100195779559.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ostracon 63860/3
- Title:
- Receipt for the contribution for billeting of soldiers (under publication TM 987580)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt for the contribution for billeting of soldiers, paid by Panapotis, son of Barbaros, issued by Psanmous, tax collector of Elephantine. The subscript says that the payment was collected through the village scribe (komogrammateus) Didymion and the former tax collector (practor) Petorzmethis, alias Pachompsachis, because the collector in charge (Psanmous) was sick.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ostraca Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003450097
040-004546357 - Is part of:
- Ostracon 5790-63860 : Ostraca collection
Ostracon 63860/3 : Receipt for the contribution for billeting of soldiers (under publication TM 987580) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003450097[0278]/040-004546357
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ostracon 5790-63860
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 potsherd, complete, all margins survive, surface slightly damaged by scratches. 8 lines.
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100195779559.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0135
- End Date:
- 0135
- Date Range:
- 30 June 135
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Pottery.
Dimensions: 87 x 98 x 8 mm.
Script: documentary script, practiced hand of Petorzmethis alias Pachompsachis.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt.
Provenance: Elephantine, 1st nome of Upper Egypt. Probably collected by Field Marshal Sir Garnet Wolseley (b. 1833. d. 1913) and donated to the British Museum by his wife Louisa, Viscountess Wolseley (b. 1843, d. 1920) in 1919.
- Publications:
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Metadata provided by the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Under publication: being edited as part of the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)