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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 Shereen A. Aly
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:
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 147 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax of year 10, starting with the date and thus not indicating the collectors; written by Pachompsachis who is not mentioned. It was paid by Zmentpos, son of Petorzmethis and Thinzmethis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown
Religion, further unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1(ἔτους) ια Ἀ̣ντ̣ω̣ν̣ί̣ν̣ο̣υ̣
2Καίσαρο̣ς̣ τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ κ̣υ̣ρ̣ί̣ο̣υ̣,
3Θωθ η̅. διέγραψεν
4Ζμεντπῶς Πετορ-
5ζμήθου μητρὸς Θιν-
6ζμήθου ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ι (ἔτους)
7ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς ὀκτώ,
8= (δραχμαὶ) η. Φαωφι κ̅ζ̅
9διέγραψεν ὁ αὐτὸς λαογραφίας ι (ἔτους)
10δραχμὰς πέντε (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ε.
10+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1Year 11? of Antoninus
2Caesar the lord,
3Thoth 8. Thus has paid
4Zmentpos, son of Petor-
5zmethis and the mother Thin-
6zmethis, for poll tax of year 10,
7on account, eight drachmae,
8= 8 dr. On Phaophi 27
9paid the same for poll tax of year 10
10five drachmae, = 5 (drachmae).
10+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cairo 18955-103_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23945 man Zmenpos, son of Petorzmethis and Thinzmethis Ζμεντπῶς Πετορζμήθου μητ(ρὸς) Θινμήθου pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 11 Thoth 08 147 September 6 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Cairo 18955-103_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312772
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 312772 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.