Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2466

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2466
Publication Number	P.Bingen 95
Current Location	magazine Assuan
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 96 and 109
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at lower left corner

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 lower left coerner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Hermogenes, praktor
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4 (+y?)
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Letter concerning the exemption of poll tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The tax collector Hermogenes informs Pachnoubis, son of Pelaias, that he is exempted of the liability of paying the poll tax, since he is over age.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. Duttenhöfer l. 3-4, new interpretation. hyperetes: over age?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ Παχνοῦβι Πελαίου
2	χαίριν ¹ l. χαίρειν. ἐξεκουφίστης ²l. ἐξεκουφίσθης ἐκ τῆς
3	λ̣α̣ο̣γραφίας ὡ̣ς ὑπερετής. καλῶς ³ed. [δ]ι̣α̣γραφ(ῆς) μου παρὰ τῆς καιν̣ῆ̣ς
4	οὖν ποιήσις πέμψις ⁴ed. [ -?- ]η̣ς̣. ἰσπέμψις μυ ⁵ l. μοι τὴν σποδήν ⁶ ed. l. σπονδήν. or: l. σπουδήν?
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¹ l. χαίρειν
² l. ἐξεκουφίσθης
³ ed. [δ]ι̣α̣γραφ(ῆς) μου παρὰ τῆς καιν̣ῆ̣ς
⁴ ed. [ -?- ]η̣ς̣. ἰσπέμψις
⁵ l. μοι
⁶ ed. l. σπονδήν. or: l. σπουδήν?

convex

1	Hermogenes, collector, to Pachnoubis, son of Pelaias
2	greeting. You have been exempted from the
3	poll tax, since you are over age (i.e. not anymore liable to pay poll tax). Please,
4	send to me the payment? (or: as soon as possible ---?)
4+y	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4443	man	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor	Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan				96 CE 109 CE	date according to the collectors time of office;

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DatasetID	309091
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	78063
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.bingen;;95
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309091 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2466), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.