Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [46]
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [46] |
| Publication Number |
ZPE 192, 5 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 150 and 158 |
| Criteria for Dating |
date according to tax collector's time of office |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
broken at right and bottom |
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 bottom and right |
| Script, Primary |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Handwriting |
documentary, hand of scribe Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis |
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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 survey tax on palm groves |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Receipt of the tax farmer Stlaccius through his assistant Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, for the survey tax on palm groves, paid by Pachompapsenchnoubis. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
corr. Reiter |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Στλάκκιος
μισθωτὴς ἱε̣ρ̣ᾶς πύλης
Σοήνης
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2 | | διὰ Παχνούβιος
Πε̣τορζ(μήθιος)
βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν
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3 | | Παχομπαψενχν̣οῦβις -?-
corr. Reiter. ed. Παχομπαψεν(ος) Χε[μσνεῦτ(ος)]|
4 | | ὑ̣πὲρ
γεομετρίας
l. γεω(μετρίας)
φοινικῶνος
γενήμ̣ατος
̣ ̣ (ἔτους)
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5 | | δραχ(μὰς) όκτὼ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. (ἔτους) ̣ ̣ Ἀντωνίνου|
6 | | Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρ̣ίου (month, day)
1 corr. Reiter. ed. Παχομπαψεν(ος) Χε[μσνεῦτ(ος)]
2 l. γεω(μετρίας)
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1 | | Stlaccius, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate at Syene, |
2 | | through Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, assistant. Thus has paid |
3 | | Pachompapsenchnoubis --- |
4 | | for the survey tax on palm groves of the harvest of year ? |
5 | | eight drachmas, = 8 dr. Year ? of Antoninus |
6 | | Caesar the lord (month, day).
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| Cairo-18955-46_S1_001 |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Antoninus Pius |
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150 CE 158 CE |
period of office of tax collector in the reign of Antoninus ; |
Pictures
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| Cairo-18955-46_S1_001 |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
309181 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
382555 |
| Author |
Ruth Duttenhöfer |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309181 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [46]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer. |
