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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 |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating | between -262 and -262 |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation of the Demotic text by Jan Moje. 2 l. (χαλκοῦς 2) |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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. ; |
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). |