Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4932

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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Publication Status	unpublished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

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	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
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

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ ḥḏ qd ½ ḥḏ ḥmꜣ ı͗rm
2	pꜣy=f rmṯ ḏbꜥ.t ½ ¼ n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ ḥsb.t 32
3a	ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 18

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.

3b	ἁλικῆς (δραχμὴν) α

1	Thus has brought Horos, son of Hartophnachthes, ½ silver kite for the salt tax, and
2	his slave ½ ¼ obols. Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes. 32nd regnal year,
3a	18th of Pachons.
3b	For the salt tax: 1 drachma.

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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;

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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).