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Persons & Deities

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	Lucius Aurelius epiteretes
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

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convex

1	διέγραψεν Πετ̣12 - 14?
2	βύτου ¹Reiter: [Ἁτ]\|πήου<ς> μητρὸς Θι 12 - 14?
3	λαογραφίας τοῦ ις ²ed. ιζ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ
4	κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
5	(ἔτους) ιζ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου (month)
6	κα. διὰ 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

1	Thus has paid Pet---, son of ---
2	bytos and the mother Thi---,
3	for poll tax of the 17th year of Trajan the
4	lord seventeen drachmae, = 17 dr.
5	Year 17 of Trajan the lord, (month)
6	25. 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

Aly, Shereen A., Eight Greek Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (2014). (193-194)
Reiter, Fabian, Leservorschläge zu griechischen Steuerquittungen römischer Zeit aus Elephantine (2017). (303)

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.