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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9647

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9647
Publication Number	O.Cairo GPW 62
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 24 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 Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, praktor
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for poll tax given out and written by praktor Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pachnoubis, grandson of Petemeaus.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 3: Petemeaus l. 8 : Pachompretis
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	διαγεγράφηκε
2	Πετο̣ρζμηθιος ¹ l. Πετορζμῆθις Παχν-
3	οῦβις Πετεμεαυς ²ed. Πουεμεαυς ὑπὲρ
4	λαογραφίας τοῦ δεκάτου (ἔτους)
5	Τι̣βερίου Καίσαρος
6	Σεβασ̣τοῦ Μεσορὴι λ̅ ἀργυρίου
7	δραχ̣μὰς δεκαέξ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.
8	Παχο̣μπρ̣ητις ³ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣μ̣ ̣ ̣ητις Πελα̣ί̣ο̣υ
9	πρακτωρος ⁴ l. [πρά]κτωρ ἔγραψεν.

¹ l. Πετορζμῆθις
² ed. Πουεμεαυς
³ ed. [ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣μ̣ ̣ ̣ητις
⁴ l. [πρά]κτωρ

convex

1	Thus has paid
2	Petorzmethis, son of Pachn-
3	oubis, grandson of Petemeaus, for
4	poll tax of the tenth year
5	of Tiberius Caesar
6	Augustus, Mesore 30, silver
7	drachmae sixteen, = 16 dr.
8	Pachompretis, son of Pelaias,
9	collector, has written.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23580	man	Pachompretis, son of Pelaias, praktor	Παχομπρητις Πελαίου	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	10	Mesore	30	24 August 23 CE	date in text;

Literature

Gallazzi, Claudio & Pintaudi, Rosario & Worp, Klaas A., Ostraca Greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo. (no. 62)

DatasetID	309398
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	73408
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.cair;;62
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309398 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9647), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.