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Ostr. Cairo EM 18955

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Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM 18955
Publication Number	ZPE 211, 2 Shereen A. Aly 78
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 102 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive, hand of Alexandros
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for geometria phoinikonon
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Alexandros, grammateus
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the scribe Alexandros for the survey tax on palm groves, paid by Bienchis, secretary for the association (synodos) of Harpaesis in year 6 of Trajan; with signature of Alexandros.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

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Translation

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1	Ἀλέξανδρος γραμματεύς. διέγραψεν
2	Βίηγ̣χ̣ις β̣ο̣η̣θ̣ὸς συνόδου
3	Ἁρπαήσ̣ι̣ο̣ς̣ ὑπὲρ γεομετρίας ¹l. γεωμετρίας
4	φοινικῶνος γενήματος πέμπτου
5	ἔ̣τ̣ο̣υ̣ς̣ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ
6	κυρίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἕξ, (γίνονται) (δρασμαὶ) ς.
7	(ἔτους) ε ς Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
8	Χοιακ ζ.
9	Ἁλέξανδρος σεσημείωμαι δραχμὰς ἕξ, (γίνονται) ς.

¹ l. γεωμετρίας

convex

1	Alexandros, scribe. Thus has paid
2	Bienchis, assistant of the guild/association?
3	of Harpaesis, for the survey
4	of palm groves of the harvest of the fifth
5	year of Trajan the
6	lord, six silver drachmae, = 6 dr.
7	Year 5 (read 6!) of Traianus Caesar the lord,
8	Choiak 7.
9	Alexandros, I have signed (for) six drachmae, = 6.

Cairo 18955-109_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23560	man	Alexandros, grammateus	Ἀλεξανδρος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	06	Choiak	07	102 December 3 CE	date in text;

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Cairo 18955-109_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Eight Receipts from Elephantine concerning taxes on date-palm groves (2019). (172-173)

DatasetID	312778
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 312778 (= Ostr. Cairo EM 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Shereen A. Aly.