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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9634

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9634
Publication Number	O.Cairo GPW 69
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 97 and 98
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 praktor Hermogenes
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and for the price of a chiton (time kithonos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of practor Hermogenes for laographia of year 1 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of Patseos, and for the price ? of a chiton (time kithonos); with signature of Hermogenes
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1 Patseotos
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	διέγρ̣αψεν Ἁρπαῆσις Πατσεῶτος ¹ed. Πε̣τσεῶτος
2	ὑπ̣ὲρ λαογραφίας πρώτου (ἔτους)
3	Τρ̣αειανοῦ ² l. [Τ]ραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ
4	κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δεκαεπτά,
5	(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ, ὑπὲρ τιμῆς κιθῶνος
6	̣ Ἑρμογένης πράκτωρ
7	ἔγραψα.

¹ ed. Πε̣τσεῶτος
² l. [Τ]ραιανοῦ

convex

1	Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Patseos,
2	for poll tax of the first year
3	of Trajan Caesar the
4	lord, seventeen silver drachmae,
5	= 17 dr.; for the price of a chiton (garment)
6	? dr. Hermogenes, collector,
7	I have written.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23570	man	Harpaesis, son of Patseos	Ἁρπαῆσις Πατσεῶτος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	01			97 CE 98 CE	date in text;

Literature

Gallazzi, Claudio & Pintaudi, Rosario & Worp, Klaas A., Ostraca Greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo. (no. 69)

DatasetID	309397
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73415
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.cair;;69
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309397 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9634), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.