Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2477

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2477
Publication Number	P.Bingen 87
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]

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Pachompsachis, scribe
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) and poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachompsachis scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Valerios Marion and his associate supervisors (epiteretai) through the assistant Pachompsachis for trade tax of year 1 of Antoninus and for installments for poll tax and trade tax of year 20 of Hadrian, paid by Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and Sentithoes.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok. (correction in bibl. included)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Οὐαλέριος Μαρίων καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ
2	ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Πα-
3	χομψᾶχις βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν
4	Ζμεντπωτ̣ος ¹ l. Ζμεντπῶς Ἁρπαήσιος
5	μητρὸς Τα̣τιθω̣οῦης ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου
6	α (ἔτους) Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
7	τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς εἴκοσι
8	ὀβολοὺς δύο (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον) ὁ αὐτὸς λαογραφίας
9	κ (ἔτους) ²ed. β (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰς (δραχμὰς) γ (τριώβολον). (ἔτους) β Ἀντωνίνου
10	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Φαμεν-
11	ὼθ ιζ

¹ l. Ζμεντπῶς
² ed. β (ἔτους)

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1	Valerius Marion and his associate
2	supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through
3	Pachompsachis, assistant. Thus has paid
4	Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis
5	and the mother Tatithooues (Sentithoes), for trade tax
6	of year 1 of Antoninus Caesar
7	the lord, brutto, twenty drachmas
8	two obols, = 20 dr. 2 ob. The same for poll tax
9	of year 20 (of Hadrian) brutto, 3 dr. 3 ob. Year 2 of Antoninus
10	Caesar the lord, Phamen-
11	oth 17.

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Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

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

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	02	Phamenoth	17	139 March 13 CE	date in text;

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Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Korrekturen zu Ostraka aus Elephantine /Syene II. (149 and 153.)
Heilporn, Paul, II, Thèbes et ses taxes: Recherches sur la fiscalité en Égypte romaine (2009). (96, rem.181.)
Heilporn, Paul, Papyrologica. III, no. 17 and 18 (2016). (214-216)
Melaerts, Henri, Papyri in Honorem Johannis Bingen Octogenarii (2000). (no. 87)
Reiter, Fabian, Vorschläge zu Lesung und Deutung einiger Steuerquittungen aus Elephantine (2018). (65-67)

DatasetID	309099
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	78055
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.bingen;;87
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309099 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2477), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.