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Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-12

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Inventory Number Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-12
Publication Number O.Oldenb. 2
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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 98 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, hand of praktor Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Hermogenes for cheironaxion of year 1 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Pachnoubis, with signature of Hermogenes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok kamelites taggen?
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετροσζμῆθις Παχνούβεο̣ς καμη̣λ̣ίτης?
2ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου α (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ 1l. Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος
3τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ιβ. Ἑρμογένης
4πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.

1 l. Τραιανοῦ
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Pachnoubis, camel driver,
2for trade tax of year 1 of Trajan Caesar
3the lord, 12 silver drachmas. Hermogenes,
4collector, I have written.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 01 98 February CE 98 August CE date in text; year 1 of Trajan;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315075
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 315075 (= Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-12), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.