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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1494

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1494
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 083
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 138 and 177
Criteria for Dating paleography
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 unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for an instalment of 10 drachmas, paid by Harpaesis, son of Psais and ?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok (date 138-177)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1(ἔτους) ? -?- Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου 1Antoninus or Marcus Aurelius?
2 -?- . διέγρ(αψεν) Ἁρπ̣αῆσις Ψάιτος μητρὸς
3 -?- ὑ(πὲρ) -?- ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς δέκα
4(γίνεται) (δραχμαὶ) ι. vac.

1 Antoninus or Marcus Aurelius?
convex
1Year ? of ? Caesar the lord
2---. Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Psais and
3? for ? on account, ten drachmas,
4= 10 dr.
1494_S1_001
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Eleph_1494-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1494innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18770 man Harpaesis, son of Psais and ? Ἁρπαῆσις Ψάιτος … Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
138 CE 177 CE palaeographical dating, Antoninus or Marc Aurel;

 

Pictures

1494_S1_001
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Eleph_1494-1_S1_001
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Eleph_1494innen_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308702
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 24258
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;83
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308702 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1494), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.