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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0062

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0062
Publication Number O.Eleph. DAIK 064
Current Location magazine Assuan
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]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 138 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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sarapion 2
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
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 Valerios Marion and his associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Sarapion, for the survey tax on palm groves of year 20, paid by Senpachompasenis in year 22?.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new edition in ZPE 202, 2017, 231. +corr. l. 2 Senpachompase(nis), l. 5 Hadrian]ou: date 138, year 22 of Hadrian!
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender woman as taxpayer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὐαλέριος Μαρίων καὶ οἱ σὺν α(ὐτῷ) ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης
2Σοή(νης) διὰ Σαραπ(ίωνος) βοηθ(οῦ). διέγραψεν Σενπαχομπασῆνις
3ὑ(πὲρ) γεωμ(ετρίας) φ̣οι̣νικῶνος γενήματος κ (ἔτους) ἀπὸ (δραχμῶν) ζ (τριωβόλου) (ἡμιωβελίου)
4δραχ(μὴν) μίαν̣ τριώβολον ἡμιοβέλιον, (γίνεται) (δραχμὴ) α (τριώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον).
5(ἔτους) κβ(?) Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου (month) κϛ.
convex
1Valerius Marion and his associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate
2of Syene, through Sarapion, assistant. Thus has paid Senpachompasenis
3for the survey tax for palm groves of the harvest of year 20, from 7 dr. 3 1/2 ob.
4one drachma three and a half obols, = 1 dr. 3 1/2 ob.
5Year 22 of Hadrian Caesar the lord, (month?) 26.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοή(νης) (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    21985 man Sarapion scribe 2 Σαραπίωνος Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Hadrian 22 138 CE date in text, year incertain, probably y. 22?, reign of Hadrian;

     

    Pictures

    0062_S1_001
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    Eleph_62innen_S2_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 310138
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 24239
    Papyri.info ddbdp/zpe;202;231
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 310138 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0062), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.