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Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [52]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [52]
Publication Number Aly, Congr. Warsaw 3
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 97 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Sokrates, signature: hand of Menelaos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Sokrates for poll tax of year 15 of Domitian, paid by Zmenpos, son of Psenchnoubis in year 1 of Nerva; with signature of praktor Sokrates, and a signature of a second collector called Menelaos.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 4-5: Ammonios should be something else, not a name. The praktors name is Sokrates.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Ζμεντ̣π̣ῶ̣ς̣
2Ψενχνούβιος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑ̣π̣ὲρ
3λαογραφίας ιε (ἔτους) ἀ̣ρ̣γ̣υρίου (δραχμὰς)
4δέκα ἑπτὰ (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ 1κα(τὰ) μέρος? ed. Ἀμώνιος
5Σωκράτης 2ed. Σωκ(ράτους)πράκτωρ ἔγραψα, α (ἔτους) Νερουᾶ τοῦ κυρίου
6 (vac.) Μεχὶρ ι̅α̅.
7Μενέλας 3l. Μενέλαος ἔχωι. 4ed. line 6a

1 κα(τὰ) μέρος? ed. Ἀμώνιος
2 ed. Σωκ(ράτους)
3 l. Μενέλαος
4 ed. line 6a
convex
1Thus has paid Zmentpos,
2son of Psenchnoubis, ---, for
3poll tax of year 15, silver drachmas
4seventeen, = 17 dr. in instalments(?).
5Sokrates, collector, I have written. Year 1 of Nerva the lord,
6Mechir 11.
7Menelaos, I have received.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27945 man Menelaos, scribe/collector? Μενέλας Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nerva 01 Mecheir 11 97 February 5 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

ocairo-warschau_3_S1_0
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Literature

 

DatasetID 315779
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 400198
Papyri.info ddbdp
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315779 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [52]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.