Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-33

Collection	Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Inventory Number	Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-33
Publication Number	O.Oldenb. 8
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Publication Status	unpublished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 left and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion 1
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Flavius Eutyches, freedman of Flavius Pansa, tax farmer (misthotes) of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assitant Sarapion, for the survey tax on palm groves (geometria phoinikonos); probably from year 8 or 9 of Hadrian
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	Φλάουιος Εὐτυχ(ὴς) ἀπελ(εύθερος) Φλαουίου Πανσα
2	μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης
3	δι(ὰ) Σαραπίωνος. διέγραψ(εν) Σαραπίων
4	-?- ὑπ(ὲρ) γε̣ομετρίας ¹l. γεωμετρίας
5	φοινικ(ῶνος) τοῦ ζ/η? (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα
7	-?- -ώ̣βολον δίχαλκον
8	(γίν.) (δρ.) -?- vac.
9	(ἔτους) η/θ?Ἁδριανοῦ -?- ̣ ̣ου
9+y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

¹ l. γεωμετρίας

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1	Flavius Eutyches, freedman of Flavius Pansa,
2	tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene,
3	through Sarapion. Thus has paid Sarapion
4	--- for the survey tax
5	of palm groves of (the harvest) of year 7/8? of Hadrian
6	Caesar the lord, ten drachmas
7	--- (amount) --- obols two chalkoi,
8	= ? dr. ? ob. 2 chalkoi.
9	Year 8/9? of Hadrian ---
9+y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28045	man	(Sar?)-apion (old. 9)	Σαραπίων	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian				123 CE 125 CE	date in text: year 8-9 of Hadrian according of collector's and scribe's time of office;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315087
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 315087 (= Ostr. Oldenburg 5324-b PRELIM-33), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.