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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1571

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1571
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 022
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 20 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at upper right corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at upper right corner
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, probably hand of praktor Pachompretis, son of Pelaias
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of laographia of year 6 of Tiberius, paid by Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis; written probably by the praktor Pachompretis, son of Pelaias.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok (argyriou archaiou)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διαγεγρά-
2φη̣κεν Ζμή-
3θιος Παχ̣ν(ούβιος)
4ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ
5ἕκτου (ἔτους) Τιβερίου
6Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ
7Μεσορὴι ιε
8ἀργυρίου ἀρχαίου (δραχμὰς) ιϛ
convex
1Thus has
2paid Zme-
3this, son of Pachnoubis,
4for laographia of the
5sixth year of Tiberius
6Caesar Augustus,
7on Mesore 15,
816 dr. of old silver.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13865 man Zmethis, son of Pachnoubis Ζμηύθιος Παχνούβιος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 06 Mesore 15 20 August 8 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Eleph_1571innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308660
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24202
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;22
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308660 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1571), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.