Metadata
Text
Text: People
Text: Dates
Pictures
Literature

Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 [52]

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_315779.tei.xml

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	Menelaos, scribe/collector? Sokrates praktor
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

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

¹ κα(τὰ) μέρος? ed. Ἀμώνιος
² ed. Σωκ(ράτους)
³ l. Μενέλαος
⁴ ed. line 6a

convex

1	Thus has paid Zmentpos,
2	son of Psenchnoubis, ---, for
3	poll tax of year 15, silver drachmas
4	seventeen, = 17 dr. in instalments(?).
5	Sokrates, collector, I have written. Year 1 of Nerva the lord,
6	Mechir 11.
7	Menelaos, I have received.

ocairo-warschau_3_S1_0

Reserved Copyright

Places (read out from edition)

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

Reserved Copyright

Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Three Greek Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (2015). (no 3)

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.