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Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-26

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Inventory Number Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-26
Publication Number O.Oldenb. 14
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 upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished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 168 and 169
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and right side.

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 left and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachnoubis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Stephanos and Herodes, supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Pachnoubis, for survey tax on palm groves, paid by Pachompapsenchnoubis, son of Pachnoubis diak()? in year 9 of Marc Aurel and Verus.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok last line partly not deciphered.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Στέφανος καὶ Ἡρώδης ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)
2Σοήνης διὰ Παχνούβι̣ς βοηθοῦ. Διέγρα(ψεν) Παχ̣ομ-
3πα̣ψενχνοῦβις Παχνούβιος διάκονος? ὑπὲρ γεομετρίας φοινικῶνος γενήματος
4η (ἔτους) δραχμὰς τέσσαρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμὰς) δ. (ἔτους) θ Αὐρηλίων
5Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων
6τῶν κυρίων ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
convex
1Stephanos and Herodes, supervisors of the Sacred Gate
2of Syene, through Pachnoubis, assistant. Thus has paid Pachom-
3papsenchnoubis, son of Pachnoubis, the deacon(?), for the survey tax on palm groves of the harvest
4of year 8, four drachmas, = 4 dr. Year 9 of Aurelius
5Antoninus and Aurelius Verus Caesares
6the lord, --- (?)
old_inv_026_S1_001
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old_inv_026_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)
  • ήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    12505 man Herodes epiteretes Herodes Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Marcus Aurelius + Verus 09 168 CE 169 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

    old_inv_026_S1_001
    Reserved Copyright
    old_inv_026_S2_001
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 315077
    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 315077 (= Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-26), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.