Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59222

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:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Simon, James Certainty:

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 15 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	surface partly covered by white residue.

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 banker Ammonios
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for date palms (akrodrya)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios banker (roman)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Bank receipt of Ammonios for akrodrya with signature of Ammonios the banker, paid by Zmethis, son of Psenchnoubis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	ἔτους β Τιβερίου Καίσαρος
2	Σεβαστοῦ, Χοίακ θ. τέτακται
3	ἐπὶ τὴν ἐν Συήνηι τράπεζαν ,
4	ἐφʼ ἧς Ἀμμώνιος εἰς τὸ α (ἔτος)
5	Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σε-
6	βαστοῦ ἀκροδρύοις ¹l. ἀκροδρύων
7	Ζμῆθις Ψενχ? (ἥμισυ/ἡμίσεως?).
8	Ἀμμώνιος τραπεζίτης .

¹ l. ἀκροδρύων

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1	Year 2 of Tiberius Caesar
2	Augustus, Choiak 9. Thus has paid
3	to the bank in Syene,
4	of which Ammonios is in charge, for year 1
5	of Tiberius Caesar
6	Augustus, for palm trees,
7	Zmethis, son of Psenchnoubis?, for a half (aroura).
8	Ammonios, banker.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4751	man	Ammonios banker (roman)	Ἀμμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	02	Choiak	09	15 December 6 CE	date in text, vgl. ZPE 107, 1995, 83.;

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Bilabel, Friedrich & Kiessling, Emil, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten V (Nr. 7515-8963 nebst ausführlichem Index) (1934). (7584)
Duttenhöfer, Ruth, BGU XX 2848-2849: Quittungen für ἀκρόδρυα von der Bank von Syene (2013). (zu 2849)
Jouguet, P. & Guéraud, O., Ostraca grecs d'Eléphantines (1933). (449, no. 11.)
Söllner, Maria Anna, Bemerkungen zur Datierung verschiedener Papyri (1995). (83)
Viereck, Paul & Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Griechische und Griechisch-Demotische Ostraka der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu Strassbourg im Elsass (1923). (cf. no. 772.)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (1899). (134)

DatasetID	309120
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	17977
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;5;7584
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309120 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59222), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.