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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM 18955

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
Publication Number	Shereen A. Aly 101
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: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty: high
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 91 and 92
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the price of public dates
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as agent for another person
Religion	unknown

Text

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Translation

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1	NN Πρωτόκτητος καὶ
2	μέτοχοι πρ̣άκτορες δημοσίου
3	φοίνικ(ος). διέγ(ραψεν) Παχομπατενεφώτης
4	ὀνόμ(ατος) Πετορζμήτιος Πετεύριος
5	μητ(ρὸς) ΝΝ ὑ̣πὲρ γενήματος δεκάτου (ἔτους)
6	Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς ἕξ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ς.
7	ὁμοίως̣ δραχμὴν μίαν τριώβολον,
8	(γίνονται) (δραχμὴ) α (τριώβολον). (ἔτους) ια Δομιτιανοῦ Καίσαρος
9	τοῦ κυρίου (month) κη διὰ Ταψουραυτιος. ἔ̣γρ̣αψα
10	ΝΝ Πελαίου γραμματεύς.

convex

1	NN Protoktetos and the
2	associate collectors of public
3	dates. Thus has paid Pachompatenephotes
4	on account of Petorzmethis, son of Peteuris
5	and the mother NN, for the harvest of the tenth year
6	of Domitian the lord six drachmae, = 6 dr.
7	ditto, one drachma three oboloi,
8	= 1 dr. 3 ob. Year 11 of Domitian Caesar
9	the lord, (month) 28. through Tapsouraut(is?). I,
10	NN, son of Pelaias, the scribe, have written.

Cairo 18955-101_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24145	man	Pachompate(ne)photes	Παχ]ομπατε<νε>φὠτ(ης)	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Domitian	11		28	91 CE 92 CE	date in text;

Pictures

Cairo 18955-101_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	312770
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 312770 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.