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Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [55]

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Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [55]
Publication Number	ZPE 195, 3 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)
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Simon, James Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 98 and 117
Criteria for Dating	Trajan mentioned
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, roman cursive, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt of harbour guard
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of ---arion, son of Ariston, through Sarapion, for hormophylakia, paid by Am---.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1: Aristonos, cf. O.Wilck. 48! accordingly supplies in l. 2 and 5
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	--- αρίων Ἀρίστωνος ¹Duttenhöfer; cf. O.Wilck. 48. ed. [Ἀν]τώνιος
2	διὰ Σαραπίωνος. διέγραψεν Ἀμ-
3	-?- ου ὑπὲρ ὁρμοφυ-
4	λακίας τοῦ ̣( ̣) (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
5	ἐπὶ λόγ(ου) ²ed. ἀργ(υρίου)δραχ(μὰς) τέσσαρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
6	(ἔτους) ̣( ̣) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
7	vac. Μεσορὴ λ.

¹ Duttenhöfer; cf. O.Wilck. 48. ed. [Ἀν]τώνιος
² ed. ἀργ(υρίου)

convex

1	---arion, son of Ariston,
2	through Sarapion. thus has paid Am-
3	---, son of --- for the harbour
4	guard of year ? of Trajan the lord,
5	on account, four drachmas, = 4 dr.
6	Year ? of Trajan the lord,
7	Mesore 30.

Cairo-18955-55_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22885	man	---arion, son of Ariston	…αριων Ἀρίστωνος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan		Mesore	30	98 August 23 CE 117 CE	date in text, year incertain, Trajan. day: 23 aug.;

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Cairo-18955-55_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Eight Greek Tax Receipt from Elephantine (2015). (no. 3)

DatasetID	309172
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	400193
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309172 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [55]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.