Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1042

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1042
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 283
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	Greek: documentary, ptolemaic, hand of Petepiphis
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	Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], son of Payris, son of Pametis, is confirmed by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 31st regnal year of Ptolemaios II Philadelphos the amount of 0,5 obols. Greek subscription with mentioning of the tax farmer Petrephis, and countersigner Phatres.
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

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.ı͗n sꜣ Pa-Ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-mtr
2	ḏbꜥ.t ½ (n) nꜣ ḥḏ
3	n-ḏr.t Wrš-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm n ḥsb.t 31 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 21

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.

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4	διὰ Πετεπ̣ίφιος

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5	sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

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1	[Thus has brought ///], son of Payris, son of Pametis
2	[///] ½ obols (for) the tax ⸢..?..⸣
3	[Issued by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis, in the 31st regnal year, 21st of Mesore.
4	Through Petep[iphis].
5	[Countersigned by P]hatres, son of Hartophnachthes.

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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	31	Mesore	21	-254 October 11 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307437
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74474
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;283
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 307437 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1042), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).