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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2463

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2463
Publication Number P.Bingen 81
Current Location magazine Assuan
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 145 and 147
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax, written by Pachompsachis, probably for Zenon the tax farmer, paid by Petorzmethis, son of NN and Thinpatchnaus
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1-2 with supplies; date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term: Zenon and Pachompsachis together only in year 9-11(beginning) of Antoninus
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ζήνων Ἡρακ(λείδου) μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης 1ed. Ἑρμογ]ένης
2διὰ Παχομψαχις βοηθ(οῦ). 2ed. -?- διέγραψεν Πετορ-
3ζμῆθ(ις) -ca.10?- μητρὸς Θινπατχναύτιος
4ὑπ(ὲρ) λαο(γραφίας) -1-2- (ἔτους) Ἀντω̣νίνου Καίσαρος
5τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπ(αρὰς) δραχμὰς δεκαεπτὰ
6ὀβολ(όν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). (ἔτους) -1-2- Ἀντω̣νίνου
7Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου -?- θ κ̅ϛ̅
7+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 ed. Ἑρμογ]ένης
2 ed. -?-
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
2through Pachompsachis, assistant. Thus has paid Petor-
3zmethis, son of NN and the mother Thinpatchnautis,
4for poll tax of year ? of Antoninus Caesar
5the lord, netto, seventeen drachmas
6one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. Year ? of Antoninus
7Caesar the lord, Thoth (or Phamenoth) 26.
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DAIK 2463_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σο (places.xml#8)
  • ήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    12740 man Pachompsachis scribe Παχομψᾶχις boethos Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 26 145 CE 147 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term: Zenon and Pachompsachis together only in year 9-11(beginning) of Antoninus; month incertain: either Tho]th or Phameno]th;

     

    Pictures

    DAIK 2463_S1_001
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 309088
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 78049
    Papyri.info ddbdp/p.bingen;;81
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 309088 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2463), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.