Ostr. Cairo EM 18955

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Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
Publication Number	ZPE 212, 2 Shereen A. Aly 108
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	published

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:

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, signature of praktor Psanmous
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats and certificates of billeting (merismos potamophylakidon and diplon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown) Psanmous praktor
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the praktores Psanmous and Petesouchos for merismos potamophylakidos and diplon of year 20 of Hadrian, paid by Harpaesis alias Loxis, son of Harpaesis and the mother T---?; with signature of praktor Psanmous.
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

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ψανμοῦς καὶ Πετεσοῦχος πράκτορες
2	διέ(γραψεν) Ἁρ̣πάησις Ἁρπαήσιος
3	ὁ καὶ Λωξις ¹l. Λοξις? μητρὸς Τ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ς
4	ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλάκιδος καὶ διπλῶν κ (ἔτους)
5	ἐπὶ λόγ(ου) ῥυπαρὰς (δραχμὰς) δ χαλκοῦν α. (ἔτους) κ̣α̣
6	Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ κ̣υ̣ρ̣ί̣ου
7	(month) γ̅, ἀκύρ̣ης οὔσης
8	τῆς προ(τέρας) ἀποχῆς
9	Ψανμοῦς σεσημείομαι (δραχμὰς) δ χαλκοῦν α.

¹ l. Λοξις?

convex

1	Psanmous and Petesouchos, collectors.
2	Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis,
3	and the mother T----, alias Loxis,
4	for the contributions for river police boats and the billeting of soldiers of year 20,
5	on account, brutto, 4 dr. 1 ch. Year 21
6	of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
7	(month) 3; and it shall be invalid
8	the former receipt.
9	Psanmous, I have signed (for) 4 dr. 1 ch.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24185	man	Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis, alias Loxis, and Tanouris	Ἁρπάησις Ἁρπαήσιος ὁ καὶ Λοξις	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	21		03	136 CE 137 CE	date in text;

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DatasetID	312777
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 312777 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.