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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4458

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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]
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

Object Type ostracon
Dating between -260 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Surface abraded

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures

convex

1 1Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje. ỉn Bwbls ḥnʿ Tȝ-šr.t-pȝ-wr tȝy⸗f rmṯ.t
2 ḥḏ qd ¼ ḏbꜥ.t ½(?) pꜣy=f sn ḥḏ qd ¼ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 25 n-ḏr.t Pa-rṱ
3 sꜣ Pa-Ḥr n ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 23 sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

1 Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
convex
4ἁλικῆς (ἔτους) κς
5Ἐπειπ ς
concave
6Βούβαλος Συμποηρ
7(τριώβολον) (ὀβολὸς) (ἡμιωβέλιον).


convex
1Thus have brought Boubalos and Senpoeris, his wife,
2¼ silver kite and ⸢½(?)⸣ obols, (and) his brother ¼ silver kite for the salt tax for the 25th regnal year. Issued by Parates,
3son of Payris, in the 25th regnal year, 23rd of Epeiph. Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes.
4for salt tax of year 26,
5Epeiph, 6
concave
6Boubalos (and) Senpoeris
73 obols (and) 1 1/2 obols.

DAI 4458b_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25535 man Boubalos, son of Harnouphis Bbls sꜣ Ḥr-nfr / Βουβαλος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

DAI 4458b_S2_001
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DAI 4458a__S1_001
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Literature

 

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).