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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1491

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1491
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 024
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 69 and 79
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top

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 top
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Melanthis as in signature
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Melanthis for laographia of an unknown year of Vespasian, with signature of Melanthis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
xδιέγρ(αψεν) NN
x+1ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρ(αφίας) ? ἔτους
x+2Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
x+3month, day ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δεκαὲξ
x+4(γίνεται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ. Μελάνθις ἔγραψα.
convex
xThus has paid --- NN ---
x+1for poll tax of year ?
x+2of Vespasian the lord
x+3(month, day), sixteen silver drachmas,
x+4= 16 dr. I, Melanthis, have written.
1491_S1_001
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1491-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1491_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13140 man Melanthis (son of Hermodotos) praktor Μελανθις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Vespasian 69 CE 79 CE date according to the collectors time of office;

 

Pictures

1491_S1_001
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1491-2_S1_001
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Eleph_1491_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308662
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24204
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;24
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308662 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1491), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.