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Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Cairo EM 18955 |
Publication Number | ZPE 211, 7 Shereen A. Aly 83 |
Current Location | Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912) |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
Publication Status | published |
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 Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | 19 January (?) 594 |
Dating | between 219 and 220 |
Criteria for Dating | date in text |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | broken at right |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 assistant Kopres | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | receipt of Hierakapollon and Ammonios, tax farmers of the Sacred gate of Syene, through the assistant Kopres for geometria phoinikonon, paid by Thinbienchis for two pieces of land registered on the name of Thineseptis. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | ok |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Woman |
Comment on Gender | woman as taxpayer and as landholder |
Religion | unknown |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
19400 | man | Ammonios (misthotes with Hierakapollon) | Ἀμμῶνις | Greek, Ancient |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Elagabal | 03 | 219 CE 220 CE | date in text; |
DatasetID | 312755 |
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 312755 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly. |