Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0590

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0590
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 301
Current Location	magazine Assuan
Comments on Inventory	In edition wrong Inv.-no 598
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [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]

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,practised cursive, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for wheat
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the collectors for wheat in Syene through the sitologoi of Elephantine for misthos? and phoros, paid by Tisatis, daughter of Pachnoubis and
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 4 misthou is wrong: new reading: metam(?) metamisthosis??? does not exist
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as taxpayer?
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Παχνοῦβις Πεσαῦτος καὶ
2	Μεσοῆρις ὁ καὶ Πεβῶς πράκτορες
3	σιτικῶν Σοήνης. ἐμέτρησεν
4	Τισᾶτις Παχνούβεως ὑπὲρ μεταμ? ¹ed. μισ̣θ̣ο̣ῦ
5	καὶ φόρου γενήματος η (ἔτους) διὰ σιτολόγων
6	Ἐλεφαντίνης πυροῦ (ἀρτάβας) ζ γ´´
7	καὶ διὰ υἱοῦ Ἡρα̣είκου (πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβην) α
8	γίνονται (πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβαι) ἀρτάβας ² l. ἀρτάβαι ὀκτὼ
9	τρίτον γίνονται (πυροῦ) (ἀρτάβαι) η γ´´.
10	(ἔτους) η/ Ἐπὶφ κ̅θ̅.

¹ ed. μισ̣θ̣ο̣ῦ
² l. ἀρτάβαι

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1	Pachnoubis, son of Pesaus, and
2	Mesoeris alias Pebos, collectors
3	of taxes in kind at Syene. Thus has measured
4	Tisatis, daughter of Pachnoubis, for --- (?)
5	and rent of the harvest of year 8, through the sitologoi
6	of Elephantine, wheat artabas 7 1/3,
7	and through her son Heraikos, wheat artaba 1,
8	= wheat artabae eight
9	and a third, = wheat art. 8 1/3.
10	Year 8, Epeiph 29.

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Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
32840	man	Heraikos	Ἡρα̣είκου	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
	08	Epeiph	29	100 July 23 CE 199 CE	paleography, emperor not known;

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DatasetID	310149
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	29874
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;301
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310149 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 0590), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.