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Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [42]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [42]
Publication Number ZPE 192, 1 Aly
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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 113 and 114
Criteria for Dating date in text, Hadrian
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, cursive, hand of Lucius Aurelius epiteretes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the epiteretes Lucius Aurelius for poll tax of year 17 of Trajan, with signature of Lucius Aurelius.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 6: di(a) L[oukiou Aurel. epit!) (incl. Reiter) l. 3 supply year 16 in lacuna, since Lucius Aurelius is only collecting up to year 16.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετ̣12 - 14?
2βύτου 1Reiter: [Ἁτ]|πήου<ς> μητρὸς Θι 12 - 14?
3λαογραφίας τοῦ ις 2ed. ιζ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ
4κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
5(ἔτους) ιζ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου (month)
6κα. δι 3ed. Θώθ. Reiter: ὁ̣ α̣(ὐτὸς) Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου ἐπιτηρητοῦ

1 Reiter: [Ἁτ]|πήου<ς>
2 ed. ιζ
3 ed. Θώθ. Reiter: ὁ̣ α̣(ὐτὸς)
convex
1Thus has paid Pet---, son of ---
2bytos and the mother Thi---,
3for poll tax of the 17th year of Trajan the
4lord seventeen drachmae, = 17 dr.
5Year 17 of Trajan the lord, (month)
625. Trough Lucius Aurelius, supervisor.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4325 man Lucius Aurelius epiteretes Παχνοῦβις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 17 25 113 CE 114 CE date in text; corrected: month name lost;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309170
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 382551
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309170 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [42]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.