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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 211, 1 Shereen A. Aly 77
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:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 65 and 66
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and bottom

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 left and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Ruphonius Antigonos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Rufonius Antigonos
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Rufonius Antigonos (collector) for survey tax on date groves, paid by Petorzmethis, son of P--- through Petorzmethis in year 12 of Nero.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Ῥουφώνιος Ἀντίγονος
2	διαγεγρ(άφηκεν) Π̣ετερζμῆθις Πε-
3	-5- ̣τος διὰ Πετερζμήθιος
4	-5- αυς γεομετρίας ¹l. γεωμ(ετρίας) φοινικῶνος
5	ια (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) -?-. (ἔτους) ιβ Νέρωνος
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ̣ κυρίου
7	(month, day)

¹ l. γεωμ(ετρίας)

convex

1	Rufonius Antigonos.
2	Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of
3	Pe---s, through Petorzmethis
4	--- for the survey tax on palm groves
5	of year 11 --- dr. Year 12 of Nero
6	Caesar the lord,
7	(month, day).

Cairo 18955-91_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29725	man	Petorzmethis, son of ---aus (1st cent)	Πετερζμήθιος -5- αυς	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nero	12			65 CE 66 CE	date in text;

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Cairo 18955-91_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Eight Receipts from Elephantine concerning taxes on date-palm groves (2019). (171-172)

DatasetID	312760
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 312760 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.