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| Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4932 |
| Publication Number | ined. eleph 4932 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 |
| Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | excavation finds |
| Object Type | ostracon |
| Dating | between -253 and |
| Criteria for Dating | date in text |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| 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 | documentary, ptolemaic, Greek: hand of Petepiphis | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small margins on all sides. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 0 | |
| Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Horos, son of Hartophnachtes, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes, of having paid the salt tax for the 32nd regnal year in an amount of ½ silver kite. Greek subscription (by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis, from the handwriting), with tax type and amount in Greek currency. |
| Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscription: tax type and amount of money in Greek currency. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | |||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 24780 | man | Horos, son of Hartophnachthes | Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 32 | Pachons | 18 | -253 July 5 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
| DAIK 4932_S1_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 315674 |
| 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 315674 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4932), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |
