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Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19890

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19890
Publication Number O.Wilck. 16
Current Location Vatican 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]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 60 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for monthly trade tax (cheironaxion meniaion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for monthly trade tax, paid by Thaesis, daughter of Orsenouphis, wife of Psenmonthes, for three months in year 7 of Nero.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as taxpayer for monthly trade tax
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διαγεγράφηκεν Θαῆσις Ὀρσενοῦφις γυνὴ
2Ψενμώνθου ὑπὲρ χειροναξίου 1l. χειρωναξίο(υ) μηνιαίου ζ (ἔτους) Θὼτ
3Φαῶφι Ἁθὺρ μηνῶν γ δραχμὰς τέσσαρες 2 l. τέσσαρας (δραχμὰς) δ.
4(ἔτους) ζ Νέρωνος τοῦ κυρίου Χοίαχ ε.

1 l. χειρωναξίο(υ)
2 l. τέσσαρας
convex
1Thus has paid Thaesis, daughter of Orsenouphis, wife
2of Psenmonthes, for the monthly trade tax of year 7, for Thoth,
3Phaophi, Hathyr, for 3 months four drachmas, = 4 dr.
4Year 7 of Nero the lord, Choiak 5.
WO_95_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
28830 woman Thaesis, daughter of Orsenouphis, wife of Psenmonthes Θαῆσις Ὀρσενοῦφις γυνὴ Ψενμώνθου pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nero 07 Choiak 05 60 December 1 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

WO_95_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309491
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 76597
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;16
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309491 (= Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19890), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.