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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1664

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Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1664
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 336
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
Dating	between -245 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Lower part broken off.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
State of Preservation (Text)	Last line damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	hand not known
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with smal margins on all sides. The lower crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	58	0
Column Height (in mm)	84	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	58 x 84	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for Arsinoe tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Sehapmoys, son of Nepherpres
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tastis, daughter of Pa..?.. is confirmed by Sehapmoys, son of Nepherpres, of having paid the Arsinoe tax (the tenth) for the 2nd regnal year. Greek subscription with payer's name Tastis, and the amount, paid in natura: 50 choes and 4 kotylai (of wine). Demotic subscription: Countersigner Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription: Countersigner Petepiphis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 4-5 greek, demotic new. reedition?
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ta-Spd ta Pa-
2	ḥḏ 1/10 ꜣrsnꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 2 n-ḏr.t
3	Ṯꜣy-Ḥp-n-ı͗m=w sꜣ Nꜣ-nfr-ı͗b-Rꜥ ḥsb.t 2 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 14 convex

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

4	Ταστίτος (ἔτους) β ¹ed. Πρου̣ῖτος (χαλκοὶ) β
5	χόας ν κοτύλας δ̣ ²ed. Χόμνις (γίνονται) δ̣ convex
6	sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ppt. sꜣ Pa-H̱nm

¹ ed. Πρου̣ῖτος (χαλκοὶ) β
² ed. Χόμνις (γίνονται) δ̣

1	Thus has brought Tastis, daughter of Pa⸢..?..⸣
2	the 1/10 of the Arsinoe tax (of) the 2nd regnal year. Issued by
3	Sehapmoys, son of Nepherpres. 2nd regnal year, 14th of Choiak.
4	Tastis, 2nd year,
5	50 choes 4 kotylai.
6	Countersigned by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis.

DAIK 1664_S1_001

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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 III Euergetes	02	Choiak	14	-245 February 4 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler Dating by Greek palaeography.;

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DAIK 1664_S1_001

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Literature

Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (no. 336)

DatasetID	307441
last Change	16.08.2022
Trismegistos	74480
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;336
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307441 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1664), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).