Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2183 a+b

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2183 a+b
Publication Number	_x001D__x001D_O.Eleph. DAIK 284
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 -216 and
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower and the right parts are lost.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The line endings of the greek part are lost. The Demotic is only preserved in one line, with the lower half of the signs already lost.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	Greek: documentary, ptolemaic, hand of Doros
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The left-aligned Greek text shows a broad lateral margin on the left side. The slight bent upper part remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4 (+x)
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], his wife Mikra, and his slave T[///]aies are confirmed by Doros of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 7th regnal year in an amount of 1 drachma for the male and [///] obols for the other. Demotic subscription with mention of the payers.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription with mention of the payers.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. date corrected in Duttenhöfer, Neue Dokumente zur Salzsteuer, p. 83. second fragment not yet transcribed. readings corrected on photo, also according to demotic text (Hoffmann) lacuna!
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man - Identifier of woman: slave of a man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	(ἔτους) ζ Παχὼνς ιε. τέτακτα[ι ΝΝ ἁλικῆς διὰ]
2	Δώρου (τετρώβολον)¹ed. (δραχμὴν) α, Μικρὰ γυ̣[(νὴ) (ὀβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον), ΝΝ υἱὸς (τετρώβολον),]
3	Τιλαίας παιδίσκη̣ [(ὀβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον) ---]

¹ ed. (δραχμὴν) α

convex

4	ḥnꜥ tꜣy=f rmṯ.t ḥnꜥ pꜣy=f šr ḥnꜥ nꜣy=f ẖr.w

convex

1	Year 7 Pachon 15. Thus has paid NN for salt tax through
2	Doros 4 obols, Mikra, his wife, 1 1/2 ob., NN, his son, 4 ob.
3	Tilaias, his slave girl, 1 1/2 ob. ---
4	[///]⸢..?..⸣, and his wife, and his son, and his slaves.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
3560	(unknown)	(Unknown [lost])	(Unknown [lost])	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator	07	Pachons	15	-216 June 27 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307438
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74475
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;284
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 307438 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2183 a+b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).