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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, 7 Shereen A. Aly 76
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 131 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

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 Valerios presbyteros?
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Valerios Thytomous? scribe
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the collector Kalasiris through the assistant Valerios presbyt(eros?), for contribution for river police boats, paid by Harpaesis, son of Zmentpos und der Mutter Tisatis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. scribe's name: Valeris Thytomoutos
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Καλασι̂ρις πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν
2	̔Αρπαη̂σις Ζμεντπῶτος μητρὸς Τισᾶτις ὑπὲρ
3	μερισμου̂ ποτ(αμο)φυλακίδος ιϛ (ἔτους) ̔Αδριανου̂
4	του̂ κυρίου (γίνονται) (δραχμὴ) α (διώβολον). Οὐαλερις ¹l. Οὐαλέριος Θυτ(ομοῦτος) ²ed. Οὐάλης πρεσβύτερος
5	ἔγραψα μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα (ἔτους) ιϛ ̔Αδριανου̂
6	του̂ κυρίου μηνὸς ̔Αδριανου̂ κ̅ϛ̅.

¹ l. Οὐαλέριος
² ed. Οὐάλης πρεσβύτερος

convex

1	Kalasiris, collector. Thus has paid
2	Harpaesis, son of Zmentpos and the mother Tisatis, for
3	the contribution for river police boats of year 16 of Hadrian
4	the lord, 1 drachma 2 oboloi. Valerios, son of Thytomous,
5	I have written, since he does not know how to write. Year 16 of Hadrian
6	the lord, in the month Hadrianos, 26.

Cairo 18955_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13395	man	Harpaesis, son of Zmenpos and Thinpetorzmethis/ Thinzmethis?	Ἁρπαήσις Ζμεντπωτος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	16	Hadrianos	26	131 December 23 CE	date in text;

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Cairo 18955_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). (222)

DatasetID	312754
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 312754 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.