Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2472

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_309095.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2472
Publication Number P.Bingen 80
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 113 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
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 of Lucius Aurelius epiteretes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
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 of year 16 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of NN, written and signed by the supervisor Lucius Aurelius in year 17 of Trajan.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ἁρπαῆ̣σις
2 -?- πὲρ λαογραφί̣α̣ς
3τοῦ ιϛ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4δραχμὰς δεκαεπτὰ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ. (ἔτους) ιζ
5Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρ̣ίου Χοιὰκ ε̅,
6δι(ὰ) Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου ἐπιτηρητοῦ.
convex
1Thus has paid Harpaesis,
2son of NN, for poll tax
3of year 16 of Trajan the lord,
4seventeen drachmas, = 17 dr. Year 17
5of Trajan the lord, Choiak 5.
6Through Lucius Aurelius, supervisor.
DAIK 2472-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27520 man Harpaesis, son of NN (bingen 80) Ἁρπαῆ̣σις --- pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 17 Choiak 05 113 December 1 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK 2472-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309095
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 78048
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.bingen;;80
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309095 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2472), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.