Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.22

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object Type	ostracon
Dating of Object	ca. 178-181 terminus ante quem
Dating	between 178 and 181
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	right and bottom part broken off

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	the right hand lacuna is 10 -15 letters wide. at the bottom the subscript is falling in the lacuna
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, practiced hand of Antonios Ioulas, scribe
Comments on Text Layout	free space at top and to the left of the text.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	45
Column Height (in mm)	43
Line Distance	45+y x 43

Modern Title	tax receipt for rent (enoikion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Antonius Ioulas scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Ailios Didymos and Hermodoros, son of Soter, collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, through Antonios Iulas.Onnophris(?) is paying for rent (enoikon) on account of himself and his brothers. with signature of Hermodoros.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	new edition*, corrections in almost all lines, Duttenhöfer
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Α̣ἴλιος Δίδυμος καὶ Ἑ̣ρμόδωρος Σωτῆρος
2	πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλε̣φαντίνης δι'ἐμοῦ ὑπὲρ τοῦ
3	Διδύμου Ἀντωνείου Ἰουλᾶ(τος). διέγ(ραψεν) -?- ¹ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ τω ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ [ -ca.?- ]
4	Ὀν̣νῶφρις ὑπὲρ ἐνοικίου οἰκοπ(έδων) λήμ(ατος ? (ἔτους) ²ed. ἐν[οικίου -ca.?- ]
5	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣τ̣ω̣ ̣ ̣ ³ed. ̣ ̣ε ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὀνόματος Π̣ -?-
6	ον̣ν̣ώ̣φρ̣εως ⁴ed. ̣ ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣ καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶ̣ν -?-
7	ἀ̣ρ̣γυρίου δ̣ρ̣α̣χμὰς ⁵ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ᾳ κατὰ μέρος -?-
8	(ἔτους) ̣ ̣// ⁶ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ Θὼθ λ̣̅ Ἑρμόδωρος
9	vac. συ̣νέσχ̣ον ⁷ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣δ ̣ ̣

¹ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ τω ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ [ -ca.?- ]
² ed. ἐν[οικίου -ca.?- ]
³ ed. ̣ ̣ε ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
⁴ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣
⁵ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ᾳ
⁶ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
⁷ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣δ ̣ ̣

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1	Ailios Didymos and Hermodoros, son of Soter,
2	collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, through me, for
3	Didymos, Antonius Iulas. Thus has paid ---
4	Onnophris for rent of a house for the accounting of year ?
5	--- on account of P---,
6	onnophris and his brothers ---
7	silver drachmas in instalments ---
8	Year ?, Thoth 30. Hermodoros,
9	I have co-collected.

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Places (read out from edition)

Ἐλε̣φαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12545	man	Ailios Didymos praktor	Ailios Didymos praktor	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
		Thoth	30	178 CE 181 CE	date on basis of identification of scribe/practor Ailios Didymos etc.;

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DatasetID	309158
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	70471
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.Ashm;;22
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309158 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. G.O.22), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.