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Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59221

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59221
Publication Number SB V 7583
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum
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 find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Simon, James
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 198 and
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

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, cursive, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for taxes on palm land
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Serenus and Isidorus, sons? of Pachnoumis, collectors of money taxes at Syene, for telesmata (taxes of which kind?) and the price of public dates and on the account of additional fees, paid by Ammonianus in a 7th year of an unknown emperor.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text text ok. corr. date probably in the reign of Septimius Severus + Caracalla, y. 7 = 198-199
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σερῆνος καὶ Ἰσίδωρος Παχνούμεως καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς πράκτορες
2ἀργυρικῶν Σοήνης. διέγραψεν Ἀμμωνιανὸς ὑπὲρ τελεσ-
3μάτων καὶ τιμῆς δημοσίου φοίνικος καὶ λόγου
4προσθήκης δραχμὰς ἐννήα 1 l. ἐννέα ὀβολος 2 l. ὀβολόν, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ (ὀβολὸς).
5(ἔτους) ζ//, Χοίακ ιγ.

1 l. ἐννέα
2 l. ὀβολόν
convex
1Serenus and Isidoros, son of Pachnoubis, and their associate collectors
2of money taxes at Syene. Thus has paid Ammonianus for the taxes
3and the price of public dates and for the account
4of additional fees nine drachmas one obol, = 9 dr. 1 ob.
5Year 7, Choiak 13.
Cairo59221_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25070 man Ammonianus (tax payer) Ἀμμωνιανὸς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Septimius Severus + Caracalla 07 Choiak 13 198 December 9 CE date in text; probably reign of Septimius Severus+Caracalla;

 

Pictures

Cairo59221_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309119
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 27330
Papyri.info ddbdp/sb;5;7583
Author ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309119 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59221), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: ruth Duttenhöfer.