Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1527

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1527
Publication Number	_x001D__x001D_O.Eleph. DAIK 286
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
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper and lower parts are lost today.
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)	Upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
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 Hermophilos, cf. O.Wilck. 1608?
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with small lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6+y	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	0
Column Height (in mm)	60	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x x+60+y	0

Modern Title	receipt for allocation of aruras (for harvest tax)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermophilos praktor Psenpmous
Text Types	documentary documentary \| account
Summary of Content	[///], Psen[///] and Ptolemaios, son of Antilochos, are confirmed by Psenpmous of having been alloted with land measured in aruras, regarding the harvest tax. Greek subscription with collector's (?) name.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok, demotic text new
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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x+1	/// pꜣ ꜣḥ NN ///
x+2	sṯꜣ.t ¼ ⅛ pꜣ ꜣḥ Pꜣ-šr-///
x+3	sṯꜣ.t ¼⅛ ꜣḥ /// sṯꜣ.t ¼⅛
x+4	pꜣ ꜣḥ n Ptlwmys sꜣ ꜣntlqs
x+5	ꜣḥ tgm sṯꜣ.t ¼⅛ ꜣḥ sṯꜣ.t ¼⅛ r sṯꜣ.t ⅛ 1/16
x+6	r sṯꜣ.t ¼⅛ ꜥn n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mw.t convex
x+7	Ἑρμόφιλος

x+1	[/// The field of NN: ///]
x+2	of ¼ ⅛ aruras. The field of Psen⸢///⸣:
x+3	¼+⅛ arures; ⸢///⸣-field: ¼+⅛ aruras.
x+4	The field of Ptolemaios, son of Antilochos:
x+5	oil-field of ¼+⅛ aruras; field of ¼+⅛ aruras [_], yield ⅛ 1/16 aruras,
x+6	yield ¼+⅛ aruras again. Issued by Psenepmous. convex
x+7	Hermophilos

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8285	man	Hermophilos praktor	Hrmwphıls Ἑρμόφιλος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (middle)				-299 BCE -200 BCE	Dating via Greek palaeography by Wagner as Early Ptolemaic presumably not correct.;

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DatasetID	307440
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74477
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;286
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307440 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1527), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography).