Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1462

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1462
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 075
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Status	published

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 Type	ostracon
Dating	between 112 and 113
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at upper left corner and at right side.

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 left corner and at right side.
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Lucius Aurelios epiteretes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for Trade Tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Lucius Aurelius epiteretes
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the epiteretes Lucius Aurelius for cheironaxion, paid by Petechnoumis, son of Pachnoubis and Tachnoumis, with signature of Lucius Aurelius.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1- 2, names. cf. O.Wilcken 153.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	διέγραψεν Π̣ετεχνοῦμ(ις) Παχνούβ(ιος) ¹ed. Σ̣τέφ̣[ανος -ca.?- ]
2	μητ(ρὸς) Ταχνούμιος ²ed. [Π]ε̣τεχνούμ(ιος) ὑπὲρ χιρωναξίου τοῦ ? (ἔτους)
3	Τρ̣αιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχ(μὰς) εἴκοσι
4	ὀβολοὺς δύο (γίνεται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον). (ἔτους) ? Τραιανοῦ
5	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, month, day. δι(ὰ) Λουκί(ου)
6	Αὐρηλίου ἐπιτηρητοῦ.

¹ ed. Σ̣τέφ̣[ανος -ca.?- ]
² ed. [Π]ε̣τεχνούμ(ιος)

convex

1	Thus has paid Petechnoumis, son of Pachnoubis
2	and Tachnoumis, for trade tax of year ?
3	of Trajan the lord, twenty drachmas
4	two obols, = 20 dr. 2 ob. Year ? of Trajan
5	Caesar the lord, month, day. Through Lucius
6	Aurelius, supervisor.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4325	man	Lucius Aurelius epiteretes	Παχνοῦβις	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan				112 CE 114 CE	date in text, time of office of Lucius Aurelius;

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DatasetID	308696
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	24249
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;75
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308696 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1462), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.