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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4458 |
Publication Number | ined. Eleph. 4458 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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] |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating | between -260 and |
Criteria for Dating | date in text |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Surface abraded |
Localization of Text on Object | convex/concave (outside/inside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | surface damaged and abraded | |
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 | 5 (3+2) | 2 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Bubalos and his wife Senpoeris, as well as his brother, are confirmed by Parates, son of Payris, of having paid the salt tax for the 25th regnal year in an amount of ¼+½ kite, as well as ¼ kite. Greek subscription by Petepiphis with name of the payers, tax type, amount and date. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscription by Petepiphis with name of the payers, tax type, amount and date. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man |
Religion | unknown |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
25535 | man | Boubalos, son of Harnouphis | Bbls sꜣ Ḥr-nfr / Βουβαλος | pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 25 | Epeiph | 06 | -260 August 28 BCE | date in demotic text, Greek text has financial year 26.; |
DatasetID | 315800 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 315800 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4458), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic). |