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Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [54]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [54]
Publication Number ZPE 195, 2 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]
Type of Discovery (unknown)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Simon, James
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 115 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
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, clumsy, hand of praktor Didymion?
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for poll tax for year 18 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of NN and the mother Thimeaus, given out in year 19 of Trajan; possibly written by the praktor Didymion?
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις NN
2θεως μητρὸς Θιμεαῦτος ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ιη (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ
3κατὰ μέρος δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον)
4δεσμοφυλακίας (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). ιθ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου
5τοῦ κυρίου, Ἁθὺρ ̣ ̣
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of NN
2and the mother Thimeaus, for poll tax of year 18 of Trajan,
3bit by bit, seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob.,
4for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob. Year 19 of Traianus Optimus
5the lord, Hathyr ?.
Cairo-18955-54_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25815 man Petorzmethis, son of NN and Thimeaus Πετορζμῆθις ΝΝ Θιμεαυτος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 19 Hathyr 115 October 29 CE 115 November 27 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Cairo-18955-54_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309171
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 400192
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309171 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [54]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.