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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1042

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex

11Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.ı͗n sꜣ Pa-Ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-mtr
2 ḏbꜥ.t ½ (n) nꜣ ḥḏ
3n-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.
convex

4διὰ Πετεπ̣ίφιος
convex
5sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
convex
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.
4Through Petep[iphis].
5[Countersigned by P]hatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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. ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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).