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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 211, 4 Shereen A. Aly 80
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 114 and
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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Palachemis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for Survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Didymion praktor, written by Palachemis the scribe, for the survey tax on palm groves; details lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Διδυμίων πράκτωρ. διέγραψεν ΝΝ
2 -4- ωνος ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος γεν(ήματος) ιη (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ
3Ἀρίστ̣οῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου δ̣ραχ(μὰς) -?- καὶ ὑπ(ὲρ)
4τιμ(ῆς) δημοσίου φοίνικος (δραχμὰς) γ (δίχαλκον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ς (τριώβολον) (ἔτους) ιθ Τραιανοῦ
5Ἀρίστ̣ο̣υ̣ τ̣οῦ κυρίου Ἁθυρ ς.
convex
1Didymion, collector. Thus has paid NN,
2son of ---on, for survey tax on palm groves for the harvest of year 18 of Traianus
3Optimus Caesar the lord ? drachmae, and for
4for the price of public dates 3 dr. 2 ch., = 6 dr. 3 ob. Year 19 of Traianus
5Optimus the lord, Hathyr 6.
Cairo 18955-105_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 19 Hathyr 06 115 November 3 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

Cairo 18955-105_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 312774
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 312774 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.