Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1814

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1814
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 282
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.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic, hand of Petepiphis
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. The rim remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	65	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	65 x 35	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tayris, daughter of Harpaesis, is confirmed by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis,of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 29th regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite. Greek subscription with mentioning of Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with mentioning of the tax farmer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok demotic text new
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ta-Ḥr ta Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ
2	(n) ḥsb.t 29 ..?..
3	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr ḥsb.t 29 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 21

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

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4	διὰ Πετεπίφιος

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1	Thus has brought Tayris, daughter of Harpaesis, ¼ silver kite for the salt tax
2	(for) the 29th regnal year, ..?..
3	Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis. 29th regnal year, 21st of Mesore.
4	Through Petepiphis.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1745	man	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis	PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος)	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	29	Mesore	21	-256 October 11 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307436
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74473
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;282
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 307436 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1814), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).