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Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9678

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9678
Publication Number O.Cairo GPW 75
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
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 160 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 Plenis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Plenis, for poll tax of year 23 of Antoninus Pius, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Psennesis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὔλπιος Κερεᾶλις μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψεν
2Π̣ετορζμῆθις Πετορζμήθεως τοῦ Ψεννή̣σεως ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας κγ (ἔτους)
3ῥυ̣παρὰς δραχμὰς δεκαεπτὰ ὀβολόν, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολὸς).
4ἔτου̣ς̣ κγ Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Φαμενὼθ κ̅θ̅.
5ἐσημειώθη διὰ Πλήνιος βοηθοῦ.
convex
1Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid
2Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Psennesis, for poll tax of year 23,
3brutto, seventeen drachmae one obolos, = 17 dr. 1 ob.
4Year 23 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 29.
5Signed through Plenis, assistant.
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    23725 man Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis, grandson of Psennesis Πετορζμῆθις Πετορζμήθεως Ψεννήσεως Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 23 Phamenoth 29 160 March 25 CE date in text;

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 310118
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 73421
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.cair;;75
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 310118 (= Ostr. Cairo EM CG CG 9678), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.