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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9528

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9528
Publication Number	O.Cairo GPW 81
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Status	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	(unknown) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Königliche Museen zu Berlin Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 118 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

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, cursive, Sarapion, scribe of praktor Sanmous
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion, scribe of Sanmus praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother Tisatis; written by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Σανμοῦς πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν Πα̣χνοῦ-
2	βις Πετ̣ορζμήθεως μητρὸς Τισάτιος ὑπὲρ
3	μερισμοῦ πο̣τ̣αμοφυλακίδος τοῦ β (ἔτους)
4	Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὴν) α (τετρώβολον).
5	Μεχεὶρ ε̅. Σαραπίων γραμματεὺς ἔγραψα .

convex

1	Sanmous, collector. Thus has paid Pachnou-
2	bis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother Tisatis, for
3	contribution for river police boats of year 2
4	of Hadrian the lord, 1 silver dr. 4 ob.,
5	Mechir 5. Sarapion, scribe, I have written.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
21905	man	Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis and Tisatis	Παχνοῦβις Πετορζμήθου Θισατις	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	02	Mecheir	05	118 January 30 CE	date in text;

Literature

Gallazzi, Claudio & Pintaudi, Rosario & Worp, Klaas A., Ostraca Greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo. (no. 81)

DatasetID	308642
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73427
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.cair;;81
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308642 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9528), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.