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Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Cairo EM CG 9711 |
Publication Number | O.Cairo GPW 63 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | find (unspecified) Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | (unknown) Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | unknown |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | (unknown) |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 0 and 0 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (unknown) Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 92 mm | 88 mm | unbekannt mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Upper left corner lost. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Beginnings of the first six greek lines lost. Some signes faded. | |
Script, Primary | Greek | |
Script, additional A | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Greek, Ancient | |
Language, additional A | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Greek: "Awkward unciale" (Wilcken in O Cairo Cat). Demotic clear. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Convex: 6 l. Greek, 1 l. Demotic, 3 l. Greek. Wider and equal line pitch, for all lines in both languages/scripts. The text covers nearly the complete three-fourth of the potsherd surface, with onmy very slim margins on top and at the right side. The lower fourth part remains uninscribed. The complete Greek text is written in one hand. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6+1+3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Receipt for poll tax ( laographia) |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | NN, son of Bienchis, is confirmed by Peteosorsmetis, son of Pa-..?.. (given in Demotic) of having paid the poll tax for the 11th regnal year in an amount of 12 drachmas = 3 staters in month Hathyr, and in an amount of 4 drachmas in month Phamenoth. Demotic (ERC Elephantine, Moje): Demotic subscription: Name of issuer Petosorsmetis, and value concerning 3 stater The first payment is signed with the demotic line, the further Greek text is mentioned four month later, than only in Greek. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Demotic (ERC Elephantine, Moje): Demotic subscription: Name of issuer Petosorsmetis, and value concerning 3 stater. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | ok (corr. in bilingual article Duttenhöfer) |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 l. ] ̣βις Βιήνχιος 2 l. λαογραφίας 3 l. Τιβερίου 4 l. [Σε]βαστοῦ, 5 l. δύο
1 Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
1 l. τέσσαρας. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
7545 | man | imperator 02 Tiberius: Tiberius Caesar Augustus | Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβòάστος / τοῦ(sic) Καίσαρος | Latin |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Tiberius | 11 | Hathyr | 13 | 24 November 9 CE | internal dating, without name of the ruler First date: in first Demotic-Greek text; |
DatasetID | 307186 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 73409 |
Papyri.info | ddbdp/o.cair;;63 |
Author | Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307186 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG 9711), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic). |