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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1198

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1198
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 017
Current Location Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
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 archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 115 and 126
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
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, hand unknown. signature of Didymion, tax collector
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title notice (memorandum?) on the amount of the prison guard-tax (desmophylakitikon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | hypomnema
Summary of Content notice by the Praktor Didymion on the amount of the desmophylakitikon-
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text ok date: probably 116, just before the tax desmophylakitikon for the first time appears! RD
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ἐφώνησεν τὸ δε-
2σμοφυλακιτικὸν (ἡμιωβέλιον) Δ̣ιδυμί̣ων
convex
1He (Didymion?) has fixed the
2desmophylakitikon on a half obol. (hand 2) Didymion.
DAIK 1198_S1_001
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Eleph_1198innen_S2_001
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eleph1198-1_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4451 man Didymion praktor Διδυμίων Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
115 CE 126 CE date according to the collectors time of office. probably in 116, when the tax for the first time appears!!!;

 

Pictures

DAIK 1198_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
Eleph_1198innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
eleph1198-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308659
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24198
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;17
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308659 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1198), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.