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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4231

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4231
Publication Number	ined. Eleph. 4231
Current Location	magazine
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Publication Status	unpublished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 -255 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State 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
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic, Demotic Greek: hand of Petepiphis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Eskasothes, son of Nechthor Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Ta..?.., daughter of Espmetis, is confirmed by Eskasothes, son of Nechthor, of having paid the salt tax for the 30th regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Greek subscription of Petepiphis.
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: daughter of a man

Text

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1	ı͗n Ta- ta Ns-pꜣ-mtr ¹Reading proposal by Willy Clarysseḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
2	n ḥsb.t 30 n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-(qꜣy-)šw.ty sꜣ Nḫt.ṱ-Ḥr n ḥsb.t 30 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 10
3	sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

¹ Reading proposal by Willy Clarysse

convex

4	διὰ Πετεπιφι.

convex

1	Thus has brought Ta⸢..?..⸣, daughter of Espmetis, ¼ silver kite for the salt tax
2	for the 30th regnal year. Issued by Eskasothes, son of Nechthor, in the 30th regnal year, 10th of Choiak.
3	Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes.
4	Through Petepiphis.

DAI 4231_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1785	man	Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes	PꜢ-ḥtr sꜢ Ḥr-tꜢy=f-nḫt	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	30	Choiak	10	-255 February 2 BCE	date in demotic text same date as OGL 1454;

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DAI 4231_S1_001

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Literature

Harrauer, Hermann & et. al., CPR X. Corpus Papyrorum Rainerii, Band 10. Griechische Texte (VII) (1986). ()

DatasetID	315801
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 315801 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4231), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).