Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0140

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0140
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 291
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Status	published

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]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 148 and 149
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right. part of the missing portion is Louvre ostracon OGL 515 which joins directly to O.Eleph. inv. 140, but still lower right corner of the receipt missing.

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 right, but OGL 515 joins directly, although still lower right corner is missing
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, roman cursive, hand of scribe Ammonios I
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios I scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred gate of Soene through Ammonios, assistant, for poll tax, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother Senbienchis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. new edition including the joining fragment OGL 515
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Ζήνων μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς
2	πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Ἀμμωνίου
3	βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Πετόρζμηθις
4	Πετορζμήθιος μητρὸς Σενβιήγχ(εως) ὑπ(ὲρ)
5	λ̣α̣ο̣γραφίας ι̣β̣ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ ὀβολόν, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).
6	(ἔτους) ιβ Ἀ̣ν̣τωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου,
7	month, day. vac.

convex

1	Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred
2	Gate of Syene, through Ammonios,
3	assistant. Thus has paid Petorzmethis,
4	son of Petorzmethis and the mother Senbienchis, for
5	poll tax of year 12 seventeen drachmae one obolos, = 17 dr. 1 ob.
6	Year 12 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
7	(month, day).

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Eleph_140-1_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

βοηθοῦ (places.xml#345)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12570	man	Ammonios I scribe	Αμμωνιος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	12			148 CE 149 CE	date in text;

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OGL515+El._140_S1_001

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Eleph_140-1_S1_001

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OGL_0515_S1_001

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DatasetID	310145
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	24268
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;291
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310145 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0140), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.