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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, 5 Shereen A. Aly 74
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: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty: high
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 129 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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, hand of Iunius Valens boethos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats and guard posts (merismos potamophylakidon and stationos)
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 river police boats, paid by Hatpechnoubis, son of Pasetis? and the mother Thizmethis.
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	unknown

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Transcription

Translation

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1	Καλασι̂ρις πράκτωρ ἀργυρικῶν διὰ
2	Οὐάλεντος βοηθου̂. διέγραψεν ̔Ατπεχνου̂βις
3	Π̣α̣σ̣ή̣τιος μητρὸς Θιζμήθιος ὑπὲρ μερισμου̂
4	ποταμοφυλακίδος ιγ (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰν (δραχμὴν) α (τετρώβολον), στατίωνος
5	δίχαλκον. (ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανου̂ του̂
6	κυρίου Μεσορὴ κ̅α̅.

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1	Kalasiris, collector of money taxes, through
2	the assistant Valens. Thus has paid Hatpechnoubis,
3	son of Pasetis and the mother Thizmethis, for the contribution
4	for the river police boats of year 13, 1 drachma 4 oboloi, for guard posts
5	2 chalkoi. Year 13 of Hadrian the lord, Mesore 21.

Cairo 18955-82_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
19375	man	Hatpechnoubis, son of Pasetis? and Thizmethis	Ἁτπεχνουβις Παση(τιος) Θιζμ(ήτιος)	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	13	Mesore	21	129 August 14 CE	date in text;

Pictures

Cairo 18955-82_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). (220-221)

DatasetID	312751
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 312751 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.