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unpublished |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
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. |
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recto |
verso |
Quantity of Lines |
5 |
1 |
Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
Modern Title |
receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives |
(Uncertain) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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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 |
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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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DAI_4233a_S1_001 |
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Reserved Copyright |
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DAI_4233b_S2_001 |
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Reserved Copyright |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
22 |
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-226 BCE -225 BCE |
Greek Financial year 23 = Egyptian year 22; |
Pictures
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DAI_4233a_S1_001 |
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Reserved Copyright |
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DAI_4233b_S2_001 |
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Reserved Copyright |
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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). |