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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 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

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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

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 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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

 

Text

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

1 ostr. Πετετσουχος
2 l. Θιαρπαήσιος
convex
1Petesouchos, collector. Thus has paid
2Sansnos, son of Pachompa--- and the mother
3Thinarpaesis, for the contribution for river police boats
4of year 2 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
52 dr. 1/2 ob. brutto, Tybi 13.
Cairo 18955-97_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

Cairo 18955-97_S1_001
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Literature

 

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.