Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19898

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]

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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, check photo???
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for the Dacian canal of Trajan and for the salary of river police boats (dakikou potamou and opsonion potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ammonios and Dionysios, here called epiteretai, for the Dacian canal (of Trajan) and for the wages on soldiers of river police boats, paid by Petorzmethis, son of NN and Senpazmethis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	check photo: Z. 1-2??? corr l. 3 Duttenhöfer
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Ἀμώνιος καὶ Διονύσιος
2	ἐπιτηρηταὶ. διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3	μητρος Σενπαζμῆθις Δακικοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ ¹ed. δ ̣μ ̣ ̣ ὑπὲ[ρ]
4	μισθοῦ ποταμοφυλακίδος ιζ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ
5	ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἕξ ὀβολοὺς πέντε (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ϛ (πεντώβολον). (ἔτους) ιζ
6	Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ ̣ ̣

¹ ed. δ ̣μ ̣ ̣ ὑπὲ[ρ]

convex

1	Ammonios and Dionysios,
2	supervisors. Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of NN
3	and the mother Senpazmethis, for the Dacian canal and
4	for the wages for river police boats of year 17 of Trajan
5	six silver drachmae and five oboloi, = 6 dr. 5 ob. Year 17
6	of Trajan Caesar the lord, Mesore ?

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12435	man	Ammonios praktor (Syene)	Ammonios praktor	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	17	Mesore		114 July 25 CE August 23	date in text;

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Bilabel, Friedrich, BL 2,1: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band II, 1 (1929). (48)
Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Anhang III - der Steuertitel Δακικου ποταμου in Ostraka aus Elephantine (2007). (485)
Pestman, Pieter Willem & Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Verhoogt, A.M.F.W. & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J. & Kruit, Nico, BL 10: Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band X (1998). (304)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Verhoogt, A. M. F. W. & Kruit, Nico, BL 11: Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XI (2002). (303)
Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Worp, Klaas A. & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J., BL 12: Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XII (2009). (324)
Wilcken, Ulrich, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien. II. Texte (1899). (no. 91.)

DatasetID	310162
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76669
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310162 (= Ostr. Mus. Vat. Inv. No. 19898), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.