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Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9617

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9617
Publication Number O.Cairo GPW 49
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: low
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 102 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 scribe Alexandros
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the scribe Alexandros for the survey tax on palm groves, paid by Petechnoumis, son of Psenmenches?; a second payment for hieratika (temple land?).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1 cf. Sh. A. Aly, ZPE 211, 2019, 173.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀλέξανδρος γραμματεύς. 1cf. Sh. A. Aly, ZPE 211, p. 173. ed. [δι(ὰ) Ἀ]λεξάνδ(ρου) γραμ(ματέως) διέγραψεν Πετ̣ε̣χ̣-
2ν̣οῦμις Ψενμε̣νχέο̣υ̣ς ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3γεωμετρίας φοι̣ν̣ικῶνος τοῦ π̣έ̣μπ̣το̣υ (ἔτους)
4Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτὼ τριώβολον,
5(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η (τριώβολον). (ἔτους) ϛ Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρο̣ς τοῦ κυρίου
6Χοι̣ὰχ κ̅δ̅.
7ὁμοίως κη̣ ὑπὲρ ἱερατικῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ε (ἔτους) (δραχμὴν) μ̣ια 2 l. μίαν, (γίνεται) (δραχμὴ) α.

1 cf. Sh. A. Aly, ZPE 211, p. 173. ed. [δι(ὰ) Ἀ]λεξάνδ(ρου) γραμ(ματέως)
2 l. μίαν
convex
1Alexandros, scribe. Thus has paid Petech-
2noubis, son of Psenmenches(?) ---
3for the survey tax on palm groves of the fifth year
4of Trajan the lord, eight silver dr. three obols,
5= 8 dr. 3 ob. Year 6 of Trajan Caesar the lord,
6Choiak 24.
7Ditto, on the 28th, for (survey tax on palm groves) belonging to the temple of the same 5th year, one dr., = 1 dr.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23560 man Alexandros, grammateus Ἀλεξανδρος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 06 Choiak 28 102 December 24 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309396
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 73395
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.cair;;49
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309396 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9617), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.