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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2478

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2478
Publication Number P.Bingen 92
Current Location magazine Assuan

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 100 and 199
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, right 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, right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for incertain tax involving collectors (apaitetai) and tax farmers (misthotai)
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1, 5, 8. tax not yet identified
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- Διδύμου καὶ -?- 1ed. ] Δομιτ -ca.?- [
2 -?- α̣(?) ἀπαιτητ̣οῦ -?-
3 -?- διέγρα(ψεν) Πετορζμῆθ̣ι̣ς -?-
4 -?- τπῶτος ὑπὲρ -?-
5 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣(?) μόσχου -?- 2ed. ]θ Ἁρπα(ησι- ) μόσχ[
6 -?- ν̣ων μισθ(?) ̣ ̣ -?-
7 -?- υ μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς πύλ̣ης Σοήνης -?-
8 -?- δραχ(μὰς) δεκαέξ τετρώβολον -?- 3ed. [Σοή]ν(ης). ἐμέτρησε̣[ν
9 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
9+y-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

1 ed. ] Δομιτ -ca.?- [
2 ed. ]θ Ἁρπα(ησι- ) μόσχ[
3 ed. [Σοή]ν(ης). ἐμέτρησε̣[ν
convex
1---, son of Didymos, and ---
2--- collector ---
3--- Thus has paid Petorzmethis ---
4--- (Thinzmen?-/Zmen?)tpos, for ---
5--- (tax title?) ---
6--- tax farmers? ---
7--- tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene
8--- sixteen drachmas four obols ---
9---?
9+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DAIK 2478-1_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
28610 man NN, son of Didymos -?- Διδύμου pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 199 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

DAIK 2478-1_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309100
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 78060
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.bingen;;92
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309100 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2478), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.