Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1330

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1330
Publication Number	ined. Eleph. 1330
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished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]

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic, Demotic Greek: hand of Petepiphis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pamenches, son of Harsiese, is confirmed by Phates, son of Hartophachtes, of having paid the salt tax for the 29th regnal year in an amount of 1/3 kite and 1/2 obols. Greek subscription by tax collector Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription by tax collector Petepiphis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje, of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer. ı͗n Pa-mnḫ sꜣ Ḥr-sꜣ-ꜣs.t ḥḏ qd ⅓ ḏbꜥ.t ½ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t ⸢29⸣
2	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ ḥsb.t 29 ı͗bd 3 šmq sw 2

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje, of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer.

convex

3	διὰ Πετεπίφιος.

convex

1	Thus has brought Pamenches, son of Harsiese, ⅓ silver kite and ½ obols for the salt tax for the 29th regnal year.
2	Issued by Phatres, son of Hartopnachthes. 29th regnal year, 2nd of Epeiph.
3	Through Petepiphis.

DAI_1330_S1_001

Reserved Copyright

Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27690	man	Pamenches, son of Harsiese	Pa-mnḫ sꜢ Ḥr-ꜥꜣ-ꜣs.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	29	Epeiph	02	-256 August 19 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

DAI_1330_S1_001

Reserved Copyright

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315798
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 315798 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1330), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).