Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [58]
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [58] |
| Publication Number |
ZPE 195, 6 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] |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Simon, James
Certainty: |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating |
between 148 and |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| 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, hand of Ammonios I |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
6 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred gate of Soene through Ammonios, assistant, for trade tax, paid by Zmet---?, son of ? ---imounis?. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
supplied name of tax farmer in lacuna l. 1: Zenon Herak(). changed supplies l. 4-5. |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
mother in filiation |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Ζήνων Ἡρακ(λείδου)
ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)|
2 | | Σοήνης δι' Ἀμμωνίου
βοηθο̣ῦ. διέγραψεν NN|
3 | | -10- α̣ῦτος μητρὸς Θι̣ -?-
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4 | | -5- ὑπ(ὲρ) χειρωναξίου ι̅α̅ (ἔτους) δραχ(μὰς) εἴκοσι
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5 | | ὀβολ(οὺς) δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον). (ἔτους) ι̅α̅ Ἀντωνίν̣ου Καίσαρος
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6 | | τ̣οῦ κυρίου Παοῖνι θ̅.
1 ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
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1 | | Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate |
2 | | of Syene, through Ammonios, assistant. Thus has paid NN |
3 | | son of ---aus and the mother Th--- |
4 | | --- for trade tax of year 11 twenty drachmas|
5 | | two obols, = 20 dr. 2 ob. Year 11 of Antoninus Caesar |
6 | | the lord, Payni 9.
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| Cairo-18955-58_S1_001 |
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| Places (read out from edition) Σοήνης (places.xml#8) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 12570 |
man |
Ammonios I scribe |
Αμμωνιος |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Antoninus Pius |
11 |
Payni |
09 |
148 June 3 CE |
date in text; |
Pictures
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| Cairo-18955-58_S1_001 |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309175 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
400196 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309175 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [58]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
