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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [60]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [60]
Publication Number	ZPE 195, 8 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 184 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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Serenus
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for the contribution for the men who have fled
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for the contribution for the men who have fled for year 24 of Commodus, paid by two brothers, written by Serenos through his brother Dionysodoros
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 5: tou ?, incl. Reiter (date)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	(ἔτους) κε Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμό̣δου
2	Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ, Φαῶφι η̅.
3	διέγ(ραψεν) Πα̣χνοῦβις (Παχνούβιος) ¹ed. // καὶ Παχνοῦβις νεώτερος
4	ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμοῦ ἀνδρῶν ἀνα̣κεχωρηκότων λημ̣μ̣ά̣τ̣ων κδ (ἔτους) ἐκ (δραχμῶν) β (τετρωβόλου) (ἡμιωβελίου), διὰ Σερήνου
5	βοηθοῦ, δι' ἐμοῦ Διονυσοδώρου τοῦ ²ed. ἐγ(ράφη). supply perhaps ἀδελ(φοῦ) in next line?

¹ ed. //
² ed. ἐγ(ράφη). supply perhaps ἀδελ(φοῦ) in next line?

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1	Year 25 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus
2	Antoninus Augustus, Phaophi 8.
3	Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of Pachnoubis, and Pachnoubis the younger
4	for contributions of the men who have fled, for the accounting of year 24, at the rate of 2 dr. 4 1/2 ob., through Serenus,
5	assistant, through me Dionysodoros, the (brother?)

Cairo-18955-60_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12530	man	Dionysodoros scribe	Dionysodoros	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus	25	Phaophi	08	184 October 5 CE	date in text: corr. Reiter APE 63, 283, n. ;

Pictures

Cairo-18955-60_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Eight Greek Tax Receipt from Elephantine (2015). (177-78, no.8)
Reiter, Fabian, Zu neuen elephantinischen Zeugnissen für die Umlage des Steueraufkommens von Flüchtlingen (2017). (283, n.6. 290)

DatasetID	309177
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	400198
Papyri.info	ddbdp
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309177 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [60]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.