Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4712

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4712
Publication Number	ined. eleph. 4712
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	Greek subscript:documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand of Doros
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4 + {1}	2
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Patous, son of Horos Petobastis, son of Esyris
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Ta-irit(?), wife of Chestephnachtis, is confirmed by Patous, son of Horos of having paid the salt tax for the 35th regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite. Countersigned in Greek by Doros with amount in Greek currency. Countersigned by Petobastis, son of Esyris.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription: tax farmer Doros and amount of money in Greek currency.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

Transcription

Translation

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. ı͗n Tꜣ-ı͗ry(.t)(?)²Reading Proposal Willy Clarysse tꜣ rmṯ.t
2	n Ḫnsw-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ ḥḏ qd ¼ n pꜣ dnı͗.t ḥmꜣ
3	n ḥsb.t 35 n-ḏr.t Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Ḥr n ḥsb.t 35 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
² Reading Proposal Willy Clarysse

convex

4	διὰ Δώρου (τριώβολον).

convex

5	sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t (sꜣ) Ns-Ḥr

concave

cc1	sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr ḥḏ qd ¼
cc2	pꜣ dnı͗t. ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 35

1	Thus has brought Ta-irit(?), the wife
2	of Chestephnachtis: [_] ¼ silver kite for the salt tax
3	for the 35th regnal year. Issued by Patous, son of Horos, in the 35th regnal year, 12th of Mesore.
4	Through Doros: 3 obols.
5	{Countersigned by Petobastis, (son) of Esyris}
cc1	Countersigned by Petobastis, son of Esyris. ⅓ silver kite
cc2	for the salt tax for the 35th regnal year.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4290	man	Doros (logeutes)	Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου)	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	35	Mesore	12	-250 September 27 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315673
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 315673 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4712), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).