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TM GeoRef 96221

"εἰς Κοπτον"

= an attestation of TM Geo 1159 in TM 27666, 2

'I will [ ] to [ ] camel driver (kamelites) [ ] for the shipment of the [ ] to Koptos and I will bring (sc. the cargo) through the desert with vigilance and precaution to the public customs warehouses in Koptos ...'

TM Geo: Egypt, U05 - Koptos (Qift)

Source: Tyche 26 (2011), p. 199-233 + de Romanis, The Indo-Roman pepper trade and the Muziris papyrus p. 9-27

Date: mid 2nd century AD: AD 125 - 175

Provenance: Egypt - Egypt [found & written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Stable URI (with TM Georef ID): www.trismegistos.org/georef/96221 Copy URI to clipboard

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Standardized name: Κοπτος

Construction: eis + acc.

Semantics: direction

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7 references to places in this text

TM GeoRef ID	Line	Attested name	Place	Context

96221	2	εἰς Κοπτον	U05 - Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159)	'I will [ ] to [ ] camel driver (kamelites) [ ] for the shipment of the [ ] to Koptos and I will bring (sc. the cargo) through the desert with vigilance and precaution to the public customs warehouses in Koptos ...'
96223	4	ἐπὶ Κοπτου	U05 - Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159)	'I will [ ] to [ ] camel driver (kamelites) [ ] for the shipment of the [ ] to Koptos and I will bring (sc. the cargo) through the desert with vigilance and precaution to the public customs warehouses in Koptos ...'
242535	6	ποταμοῦ	Nile (TM Geo 3943)	'and I will put (sc. the cargo) under the power and seal of yourself or your administrators or whoever of them is there up to the loading (sc. of the cargo) on the river and I will load at the required time in a safe river ship'
96222	8	[ἐν Ἀλε]ξ̣ανδρείᾳ	L00 - Alexandria (TM Geo 100)	'and I will convey (sc. the cargo) downstream up to the customs warehouse of the quarter-tax in Alexandria and ...'
41199	12	κατὰ Μουζειριν	India - Mouzeiris (TM Geo 9229)	'on the occurrence of the time established for the repayment in the loan contracts for Mouzeiris'
118543	Vo 4	[Γανγιτικῆς]	India - Ganges (TM Geo 3913)	'[Of nardos of the Ganges 80 containers - quarter-tax] containers 20'
41200	Vo col. 3, 1	Γανγιτικῆς	India - Ganges (TM Geo 3913)	'Of nardos of the Ganges, 60 containers'