Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-17

Collection	Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Inventory Number	Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-17
Publication Number	O.Oldenb. 6
Current Location	Cologne, Institute of Egyptology
Comments on Inventory	Inv. nr. assigned only provisionally at the occasion of transfer to Heinz Felber, Cologne, for study purposes
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	find (unspecified) Certainty: high
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 2 2 1875 and
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Grossherzog Friedrich August (II.) von Oldenburg Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine / Syene
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Grossherzog Friedrich August (II.) von Oldenburg Certainty: high

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 upper left corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion I
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for laographia and desmophylakia, paid by Petorzmethis alias Paris, son of Petorzmethis and Thinpachnoubis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ μισθωταὶ
2	ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαρα-
3	πίωνος. διέγραψεν Πετορ-
4	ζμῆθις ὁ καὶ Πάρις Πετορ-
5	ζμήθεως μητρὸς Θινπα-
6	χνούβιος λαογραφίας τετάρ-
7	του ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ
8	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
9	δραχμὰς δεκαεπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον),
10	δεσμοφυλάκων (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).
11	(ἔτους) ε Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
12	Ἐπεὶφ κ̅β̅.

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1	Valerion and the other tax farmers
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene through Sara-
3	pion. Thus has paid Petor-
4	zmethis alias Paris, son of Petorz-
5	methis and the mother Thinpa-
6	chnoubis, for poll tax of the fourth
7	year of Hadrian
8	Caesar the lord
9	seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob.,
10	for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.
11	Year 5 of Hadrian the lord,
12	Epeiph 22.

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Places (read out from edition)

Σοήνης (places.xml#8)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22795	man	Petorzmethis (alias Paris), son of Petorzmethis and Senpachnoubis = p12600?	Πετορζμῆθις Πετορζμήθεως Σενπαχνοῦβις	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	05	Epeiph	22	121 July 16 CE	date in text;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315074
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 315074 (= Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-17), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.