Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM 18955 |
| Publication Number |
ZPE 212, 1 Shereen A. Aly 106 |
| Current Location |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| 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 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 Palachemis |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
Receipt for the price and expenses for a statue of Trajan (time and dapane andriantos Traianou) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Receipt of Bassion and Ammonas, praktores, for time and dapane andriantos Traianou, paid by Zmetpos, son of Petechnoubis. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
Problem Übersetzung archaias ektheseos |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
unknown |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Βασσίων καὶ Ἀμμώνιος
πράκτορες
ἀρχαιᾶς ἐκθ(έσεως). διέγραψε
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2 | | Ζμετπῶς Πετεχνούβιος
ὑπ̣ὲρ
τιμῆ(ς) καὶ δαπάνη(ς)
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3 | | ἀνδρειάντος τοῦ ἀνατεθέντος ἐν Κ̣αισαρίω δραχ(μὰς) δύο (τετρώβολον)|
4 | | (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον). ἔτους) ιη Τραιανοῦ Καίσ̣αρος τοῦ κυρίου -?-
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1 | | Bassion and Ammonios, collectors of old (outstanding) debts. Thus has paid |
2 | | Zmetpos, son of Petechnoubis, for the price and expenses |
3 | | of a statue erected in the Kaisareion two drachmae 4 ob.,|
4 | | = 2 dr. 4 ob. Year 18 of Traianus Caesar the lord, (month, day?).
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| Cairo 18955-106_S1_001 |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 4555 |
man |
Ammonas praktor |
Ἀμμωνᾶς |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Trajan |
18 |
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114 CE 115 CE |
date in text; |
Pictures
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| Cairo 18955-106_S1_001 |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
312775 |
| 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 312775 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly. |
