Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59234

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

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 unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for epibole*
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Sarapion and Petronius and their associate praktores argyrikon Syene, for the contribution of "epibole of the first aristhmesis?" of year 4, paid by Ammonianus, son of Ammonianus.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 2 name = Ammonianus, //= son of Ammonianus! l. 3 not talantou! symbol is for (arouras)? Datum fehlt noch: wann? 3rd cent. vgl. WO 1472 (255)?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Σαραπίων καὶ Πετρώνιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς πράκτορες
2	ἀργυρικῶν Σοήνης . διέγραψεν Ἀμμο̣νιανὸς (Ἀμμωνιανοῦ)
3	ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ἐπιβολῆς (ἀρούρας) ¹ed.(ταλάντου) α λήμματος δ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς
4	ἑπτὰ τριώβολον , (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ζ (τριώβολον). (ἔτους) δ, Ἐπεὶφ δ ̅.

¹ ed.(ταλάντου)

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1	Sarapion and Petronius and their associate collectors
2	of money taxes at Syene. Thus has paid Ammonianus, son of Ammonianus,
3	for the contribution for the epibole of 1 aroura, for the accounting of year 4, drachmas
4	seven and three obols, = 7 dr 3 ob. Year 4, Epeiph 4.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25455	man	Ammonianus, son of Ammonianus	Ἀμμονιανὸς //	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
	04	Epeiph	04	200 CE 299 CE	palaeographical dating; emperor incertain, probably 3rd cent. because of tax title merismos epiboles;

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Bilabel, Friedrich & Kiessling, Emil, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten V (Nr. 7515-8963 nebst ausführlichem Index) (1934). (7596)
Jouguet, P. & Guéraud, O., Ostraca grecs d'Eléphantines (1933). (453, no. 23.)
Wallace, Sherman LeRoy, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (1938). (168)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (cf. no. 1472.)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (1899). (193)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde; I Historischer Teil, 1: Grundzüge (1963). (188)

DatasetID	309132
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	27331
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;5;7596
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309132 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59234), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.