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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4233

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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
Range of Preservation complete

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) 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

 

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 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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1aδι...ιος???
convex
1bı͗n Pa-I͗mn ı͗rm tꜣy=f ḥm.t ḥḏ qd 1 ḏbꜥ.t 5½
2ḥḏ 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
4Παμοῦνις καὶ γυνὴ β (πεντώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον).
convex
5sẖ Pꜣ-wḏꜣ-mtw=s



concave
cc1sẖ Šmsbṱ
convex
1a---?
1bThus have brought Pamounis and his wife 1 silver kite and 5½ obols.
2for the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year. Issued by Petemestous. 22nd regnal year, [///]th of Payni.
3Year 23(?). Ammonios, the clerk of Euarches.
4Pamounis and his wife 2 (dr.) 5 ob. 1/2 ob.
5Countersigned by Potemetous
cc1Countersigned by Shemsbet.
DAI_4233a_S1_001
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DAI_4233b_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

DAI_4233a_S1_001
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DAI_4233b_S2_001
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Literature

 

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).