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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1452

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1452
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 057
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
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 128 and 129
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and right side.

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 and right.
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Ammonides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for custom duties
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Ammonios and his associate farmers of the 2% tax at the harbour of Syene, acting through their secretary Ammonides, for custom duties on the the import? of pressed dates, in y. ? of Hadrian, paid by Petorzmethis, son of ?.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr l. 3-4, name Petorzmethi, name of father, to kai Daki, alias name! date y. 13 probable
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀμμώνιος καὶ ο̣ἱ σὺν αὐτ(ῷ) τελ(ῶναι) πεντ(ηκοστῆς)
2λιμ(ένος) Σοήν(ης) διʼ Ἀμμω̣νίδου γραμματ(έως)
3-?- Πετορ̣ζμῆτι ̣[ -?- ]
4-?- τῷ̣ 1ed. ]ς̣ καὶ Δ̣ακ̣ὶ -?- ἀπέσχομεν
5παρὰ σοῦ τω 2 l. [τ]ὸ γινόμενον τέλ(ος) ὧν
6 -?- -ήγαγες φοίνι̣κος πατητοῦ -?-
7(ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδρια̣νοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
8Φαρμοῦθι ι̅ε̅.

1 ed. ]ς̣
2 l. [τ]ὸ
convex
1Ammonios and his associate farmers of the two-percent duty
2at the port of Syene, acting through their secretary Ammonides,
3to Petorzmethis alias Dax,
4son of ---, greetings. We have received
5from you the proper tax on pressed dates ---
6which you have ex-/imported
7Year 13? of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
8Pharmouthi 15.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήν(ης) (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    4449 man Ammonides grammateus Ἀμωνίδης Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Hadrian 13 Pharmuthi 15 129 April 10 CE date in text, probably y. 13 of Hadrian, because of parallel documentation;

     

    Pictures

    1452_S1_001
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    1452-2_S1_001
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    Eleph_1452-1_S1_001
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    Eleph_1452innen_S2_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308683
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 24236
    Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;57
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308683 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1452), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.