Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4233

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4233
Publication Number	ined. eleph. 4233
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Publication Status	unpublished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
Range of Preservation	complete

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)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with small lateral margins. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petemestous, son of Patous Potemetous, son of Psentotoes Shemsbet
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pamounis and his wife are confirmed by Petemestous of having paid the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year in an amount of 1 kite and 5½ obols. Greek subsription with date, clerk, payers and amount. Countersignature of Potemetous and Shemsbet.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subsription with date, clerk, payers and amount.
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 (without her own name)

Transcription

Translation

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1a	δι...ιος???

convex

1b	ı͗n Pa-I͗mn ı͗rm tꜣy=f ḥm.t ḥḏ qd 1 ḏbꜥ.t 5½
2	ḥḏ ḥmꜣ ḥsb.t 23 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wı͗ ḥsb.t 22 ı͗bd 2 šmw

convex

3	(ἔτους) κγ. Ἀμμώνιος ὁ παρ' Εὐάρχου
4	Παμοῦνις καὶ γυνὴ β (πεντώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον).

convex

5	sẖ Pꜣ-wḏꜣ-mtw=s

concave

cc1

convex

1a	---?
1b	Thus have brought Pamounis and his wife 1 silver kite and 5½ obols.
2	for the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year. Issued by Petemestous. 22nd regnal year, [///]th of Payni.
3	Year 23(?). Ammonios, the clerk of Euarches.
4	Pamounis and his wife 2 (dr.) 5 ob. 1/2 ob.
5	Countersigned by Potemetous
cc1	Countersigned by Shemsbet.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27300	man	Ammonios ho par Euarches (bank clerk)?	Ἀμμώνιος ὁ παρ' Εὐάρχου	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	22			-226 BCE -225 BCE	Greek Financial year 23 = Egyptian year 22;

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DatasetID	315802
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 315802 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4233), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).