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Ostr. Durham, Oriental Museum EG5453

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Durham, Oriental Museum EG5453
Publication Number ined.
Current Location University of Durham, University Museums
Publication Status unpublished

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 (unknown)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object Coptic Period? (according to a label with the box of ostraca with 'Coptic' written on it)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and right
Comments on Object Front: convex side of a reddish pottery sherd featuring 4 lines of a Greek text. Back: concave side of a pinkish pottery sherd.

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 top and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Front: probably belonging to a tax receipt issued by a tax collector? from Syene during the 17th regnal year of an unknown Roman emperor
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1
x+2Σοήνης α [
x+3(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) ιζ [
x+4τοῦ κυρ[ίου
Durham_OM_EG5453_S1_00
Reserved Copyright
Durham_OM_EG5453_S2_00
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Pictures

Durham_OM_EG5453_S1_00
Reserved Copyright
Durham_OM_EG5453_S2_00
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311115
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311115 (= Ostr. Durham, Oriental Museum EG5453), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.