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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1577

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1577
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 025
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 114 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Peleas
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
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 Peleas for laographia of the third year of Titus, paid by Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis; with signature of Peleas
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text day corrected: l 3 Mesore 30! l. 4 lacuna filled different.
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 διέγρ(αψεν) Ζμενπῶς Ἁρπαήσιος
2ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρ(αφίας) τρίτου (ἔτους) Τίτου Καίσαρος
3τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ̅ 1ed. γ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς
4δεκαὲξ 2ed. καὶ προσ]δ(ιαγραφόμενα), (γίνεται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ. Πελέας
5ἔγραψα. vac.

1 ed. γ
2 ed. καὶ προσ]δ(ιαγραφόμενα)
convex
1Thus has paid Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis,
2for laographia of the third year of Titus Caesar
3the lord, Mesore 30, silver drachmas
4sixteen, = 16 dr. Peleas,
5I have written.
DAIK 1577-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1577_S1_001
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Elepha_1577innen_S2_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13365 man Peleas, scribe and collector Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Titus 03 Mesore 30 81 August 23 CE date in text; day corrected: 30!;

 

Pictures

DAIK 1577-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1577_S1_001
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Elepha_1577innen_S2_00
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308663
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24205
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;25
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308663 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1577), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.