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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 117 and
Criteria for Dating date in text, Hadrian
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and 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 top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand unknown; signature also unknown.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for Behen nuts
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content end of receipt of the reign of Hadrian; only fragmentary details to be recognized.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 - ? - Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος
x+2 - ? - μάτιον α̅ μυροβα-
x+3λάνων -?- (ἔτους) β? Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
x+4τοῦ κυρίου Φαμενωθ ς̅.
x+5 - ? - ̣ας ἀπέχω.
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1--- Trajan Caesar
x+2--- 1 mation of behen-
x+3nuts ---? . Year 2? of Hadrianus Caesar
x+4the lord, Phamenoth 6.
x+5(2nd hand) --- as, I have received.
Cairo 18955-104_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 02 Phamenoth 06 117 March 2 CE date in text damaged, year incertain;

 

Pictures

Cairo 18955-104_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312773
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 312773 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.