O.Skeat 1 / Recto
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Record Details
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Ost
- Size
- 6.5 x 6.7 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-4
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- This brown-reddish ostracon appears more or less complete though with a round left edge. Loss of text, however, does not appear to be caused by a break in the ostracon.
- Palaeographic Description
- Rather quick and practiced semicursive Letters missing at the left edge appear to have rubbed off.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 299/300 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Thebes, Thebais, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased (at Luxor) in November 1933 by T. C. Skeat and donated in 1948 to the University of Michigan
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- receipt
- Content
- this ostracon contains a receipt for transportation of grain on a donkey
- Persons
- Akes, son of Aunes,
- Abok, son of Melas
- Geographica
- Karanis
- Translation
- "In the granary of Karanis year 15 through Akes, son of Aunes . . . Abok, son of Melas, one donkey, in total 1 donkey."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1182
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections TAPA 81 Youtie HC 1950 101-2 SB VI 9111 Youtie HC, TAPA 81, 101-2, 1950 -- SB VI 9111 Scriptiunculae I H C Youtie 1973 214-215 H C Youtie, Scriptiunculae I, 214-215, 1973
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 299
- Year End
- 300
Technical Details
- Record
- 1182
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1182/o_sk1r.tif
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- Full citation
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"O.Skeat 1; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1182/o_sk1r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.