Ostr. Cairo EM 18955

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Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
Publication Number	ZPE 212, 3 Shereen A. Aly 97
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

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 scribe of Praktor Petesouchos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	scribe of Praktor Petesouchos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Praktor Petesouchos for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon) for year 2 of Antoninus, paid by Sansnos, son of Pacho--- and the mother Thiarpaesis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Πετεσοῦχος ¹ostr. Πετετσουχος πράκ(τωρ). διέγ(ραψεν)
2	Σανσνῶς Παχομπαψενχνο(ύμεως)? μη(τρὸς)
3	Θιαρπαησις ²l. Θιαρπαήσιος ὑπὲρ μερισ(μοῦ) ποταμ(οφυλακίδος)
4	β (ἔτους) Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
5	ῥυπαρὰς (δραχμὰς) β (ἡμιωβέλιον), Τῦβι ι̅γ̅.

¹ ostr. Πετετσουχος
² l. Θιαρπαήσιος

convex

1	Petesouchos, collector. Thus has paid
2	Sansnos, son of Pachompa--- and the mother
3	Thinarpaesis, for the contribution for river police boats
4	of year 2 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
5	2 dr. 1/2 ob. brutto, Tybi 13.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4251	man	Petesouchos praktor	Πετεσουχος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	02	Tybi	13	139 January 8 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	312766
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 312766 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.