Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1819

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1819
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 280
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. XXXX
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic
Comments on Text Layout	XXXX Text layout currently unknown.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachnoumis, son of Petepiphis Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Berenephthis, wife of Harpaesis, is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of Petepiphis, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 22nd regnal year in an amount of 1½ obols. Greek subscription with repetition of content: we have received from Meribtios for halike (salt tax) 1,5 ob. year 23 (financial year), Tybi 14
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. (corr. in P.Bagnall) demotic text new
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje, of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer. ı͗n Mr-ı͗b-Ptḥ tꜣ rmṯ.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t ḏbꜥ.t 1.t ½ n ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 22 n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm
2	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t n ḥsb.t 23 ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 14

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje, of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer.

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3	ἔχομεν παρὰ Μεριβτίου
4	(ὀβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον) ἁλικῆς. (ἔτους) κγ
5	Τῦβι ιδ.

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1	Thus has brought Berenephtis, the wife of Harpaesis, 1½ obols for the salt tax for the 22nd regnal year. Issued by Pachnoumis,
2	son of Petepiphis, in the 23rd regnal year, 14th of Tybi.
3	We have received from Meribtios
4	one and a half obol for salt tax. Year 23
5	Tybi 14.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8435	woman	Berenephtis, the wife of Harpaesis	Μ[///]πτις (Gen. Μεριβτιoυ); Mr-ı͗b-Ptḥ tꜣ rmṯ.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	23	Tybi	14	-262 March 10 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307434
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74471
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;280
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307434 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1819), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).