Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1807

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1807
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 279
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	partly published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(not relevant)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete. Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic, written with brush
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, wiht broad lateral margins and on top. the lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Protarchos
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Petenephotes, son of Pouoptis, is confirmed by Protarchos of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 22nd regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite equating 2 obols and 2 chalkoi. Greek subscription with repetition of content, giving the amount of money in Greek currency of 2 obols and 2 chalkoi.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with repetition of information, without filiation, with year of issue, and amount ỉn greek currency.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok (P.Bagnall) demotic text new
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic text by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nfr-ḥtp sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
2	n ḥsb.t 22 n-ḏr.t Prtrqws ḥsb.t 23 ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 10
3	ἔχομεν παρὰ Πετενε-
4	φώτου ἁλικῆς (διώβολον) τέ(ταρτον) ²l. (χαλκοῦς 2).
5	(ἔτους) κγ Τῦβι ι̣.

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic text by Jan Moje.
² l. (χαλκοῦς 2)

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1	Thus has brought Petenephotes, son of Pouoptis, ¼ silver kite for the salt tax
2	for the 22nd regnal year. Issued by Protarchos. 23rd regnal year, 10th of Tybi.
3	We have received from Petene-
4	photes for salt tax 3 obols 2 Chalkoi.
5	Year 23, Tybi 10.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11125	man	Petenephotes, son of Pouoptis	PꜢ-ḏỉ-nfr-ḥtp sꜢ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ; Πετενεφώτης	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	23	Tybi	10	-262 March 6 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307433
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74470
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;279
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307433 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1807), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).