Ostr. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 36,36

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 36,36
Publication Number	O.Deiss. 41
Current Location	Sydney, Nicholson Museum
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Deißmann, Adolf Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1936 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Gillespie, Robert Winton Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 136 and 137
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	broken in three pieces that join into the complete piece

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, Sanmus praktor writes himself.
Comments on Text Layout	lower half of sherd empty
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Psanmous praktor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for merismos potamophylakidon from the praktor Sanmus, who writes the receipt himself; paid by Pekysis, son of Patchnaus
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	tax amount of 1 dr. 4 ob. not certain; might be 3,5 or even 5,5 ob. mother name remains problematic: cf. O.Wilck. 225
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Ψανμοῦς πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν Πεκῦσις
2	Πατχναῦτος μητρὸς Θιπ̣α̣σ̣ητι̣ς̣¹ed. Θρ̣ακῆτος ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
3	ποταμοφυλακίδος κ (ἔτους)²ed. κα (ἔτους(?)) ῥυπαρὰν (δραχμὴν) α (τριώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον)³ed. (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) κ̣⁴ed. (ἔτους) κα̣
4	Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
5	vac. Φαμενὼθ κ̅η̅.

¹ ed. Θρ̣ακῆτος
² ed. κα (ἔτους(?))
³ ed. (τετρώβολον)
⁴ ed. (ἔτους) κα̣

convex

1	Psanmus, tax collector. Thus has paid Pekysis,
2	son of Patchnaus and his mother Thipasetis, for the contribution
3	for river police boats of year 20, 1 dr. 3 1/2 ob., brutto. Year 20
4	of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
5	Phamenoth 28.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4460	man	Pekysis, son of Patchnaus and the mother Thin---/Senpasetis?	Πεκυσις Πατχναῦτος Σενπασετις	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	20	phamenoth	28	136 March 24 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	308634
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73856
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.deiss;;41
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308634 (= Ostr. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 36,36), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.