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Ostr. Cairo EM 18955

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
Publication Number	ZPE 209, 3 Shereen A. Aly 72
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Simon, James Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 128 and 129
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Iunius Valens, boethos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for a statue of the emperor (merismos andriantos)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Iunius Valens
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the collector Kalasiris through the assistant (Iunius) Valens for merismos andriantos of the emperor Hadrian, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis and the mother Thiharpaesis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	Syncretism
Comment on Religion	tax for a statue of the emperor Hadrian

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Καλασι̂ρις πράκτωρ διὰ Οὐάλεντος βοηθ(ου̂).
2	διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις Ἁρπαήσ-
3	ις ¹l. Ἁρπαήσεως μητρὸς Θιαρπαήσιος ὑπὲρ μερισμου̂ ἀνδ(ριάντος)
4	τοῦ κυρίου Ἁδριανου̂ Καίσαρος (δραχμὰς).
5	(ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανου̂ του̂ κυρίου, month, day.

¹ l. Ἁρπαήσεως

convex

1	Kalasiris, tax collector, through the assistant Valens.
2	Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis
3	and the mother Thiharpaesis, for the contribution for a statue
4	of the lord Hadrian Caesar ? drachmae.
5	Year 13 of Hadrian the lord, ---.

Cairo 18955-80_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12475	man	Iunius Valens	Iunius Valens	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	13			128 CE 129 CE	date in text;

Pictures

Cairo 18955-80_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Seven Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum featuring the tax collector Kalasiris and his Entourage (2019). (218-219)

DatasetID	312749
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 312749 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.