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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2485

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2485
Publication Number P.Bingen 93
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 140 and 141
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution (i.e. for men who have fled) (merismos) and for an installment for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt through the assistant Pachompsachis for the contribution of year 2 of Antoninus and for installment for poll tax of year 20 of Hadrian, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Peteptensetis and Senpsansnos in year 4 of Antoninus Pius.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new edition in ZPE 202, 2017, 235
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διὰ Παχομψᾶχις β̣οηθ(οῦ)
2διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις Πε-
3τεπτενσῆτις μητ̣ρὸς Σεν-
4ψανσνῶς ὑ̣π(ὲρ) μερισμ(οῦ) β (ἔτους)
5(δραχμὴν) α (πεντώβολον) (δίχαλκον), λαο(γραφίας) κ (ἔτους) θεοῦ
6Ἁδριαν̣οῦ ἐπὶ λόγ(ου) (?) (δραχμὰς) γ (τριώβολον).
7(ἔτους) δ Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
8τ̣οῦ κυρίου -?-
convex
1Through Pachompsachis, the assistant.
2Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of
3Peteptensetis and the mother Sen-
4psansnos, for the contribution of year 2,
51 dr. 5 ob. 2 ch., for poll tax of year 20 of the god
6Hadrian, on account, 3 dr. 3 ob.
7Year 4 of Antoninus Caesar
8the lord, ---
DAIK 2485_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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 140 CE 141 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK 2485_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309107
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 78061
Papyri.info ddbdp/zpe;202;235
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309107 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2485), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.