Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18955 [49]

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 Type	ostracon
Dating	between 216 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	broken in three pieces which join into the complete piece

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	joined of three fragments
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Hierakapollon and Ammonios, tax farmers of the Sacred gate of Syene, for trade tax, paid by Paris, son of Hermon and Thinpapremithes, and for poll tax for his son Petorzmethis, dated to year 24 of Caracalla.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. Reiter: l. 3 mother's name Thinpapre(mithes); l. 5 hyiou. l. 6: ep(i to auto). l. 7 grammat. falsch
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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Ἱερακαπόλλων καὶ Ἀμμῶνις μισθωταὶ

2	ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψεν Π̣άρις̣ Ἕ̣ρμωνο̣ς
3	μητρὸς Θινπαπρεμίθου ¹ed. Θινπατρα(σνούφιος) ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου
4	λήμματος κγ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς τέσσαρες ὀβολοὺς δύο,
5	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ (διώβολον), καὶ ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας Πετορζμήθιο(ς) υἱοῦ ²ed. Πετορζμῆθι(ς) ὁ υἱὸς
6	δραχμὰς ἐννέα ὀβολὸν (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ (ὀβολός), (γίνονται) ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ³ed. ἐπ(ὶ τῶν αὐτῶν) (δραχμαὶ) ιγ (τριώβολον).
7	Αὐρ&lt;η>λ(ιος) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣(?) ⁴ed. γραμματ(εύς)
8	(ἔτους) κδ Φαμενὼθ δ.

¹ ed. Θινπατρα(σνούφιος)
² ed. Πετορζμῆθι(ς) ὁ υἱὸς
³ ed. ἐπ(ὶ τῶν αὐτῶν)
⁴ ed. γραμματ(εύς)

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1	Hierakapollon and Ammonios, tax farmers
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid Paris, son of Hermon
3	and the mother Thinpapremithes, for trade tax
4	of the accounting of year 23, four drachmas two obols,
5	= 4 dr. 2 ob., and for the poll tax of his son Petorzmethis,
6	nine drachmas one obol, = 9 dr. 1 ob., = total 13 dr. 3 ob.
7	Aurelius ---
8	Year 24, Phamenoth 4.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
19400	man	Ammonios (misthotes with Hierakapollon)	Ἀμμῶνις	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Caracalla	24	Phamenoth	04	216 February 29 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	309184
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	382558
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309184 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18955 [49]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.