Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1690

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1690
Publication Number	ined.
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Publication Status	unpublished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
Dating	between -238 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at lower right corner, surface abraded

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at lower right corner, surface abraded
Script, Primary	Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown Greek Demotic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipts for cloth (linen) tax
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Antinous Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Bank receipt of the banker Diognetos* for the account of the oikonomos of year 9 for the cloth , paid by Pelaias, so of Esyris, signed by Antinous, with countersignature of a demotic scribe. Second receipt in Demotic: Psentotoes is confirmed by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis, of having paid the linen tax for the 9th regnal year in an amount of 6 kite.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	fehlt genaues datum: demotisch?
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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convex

1	ἔτους θ? (month). ἐ̣π̣ὶ̣ τὴν ἐν Συήνῃ τράπεζαν
2	ἐφ' ης Διόγνητος βασιλεῖ οἰκονομείας τοῦ
3	θ (ἔτους) όθονιηρᾶς Ἐλεφαντίνης Πελαίας
4	Ἐσυριος ἃς̣ Ψεντοτοῆς χαλκοῦ πρὸς ἀρ-
5	γ̣ύριον δραχμὰς δεκαδύο μόνον ̣ .
6	δι' Ἀντινοῦ.

convex

6b	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr

convex

7	pꜣ dnı͗.t sw swḥ (n) Yb (n) ḥsb.t ḥsb.t 9
8	Pꜣ-šr-Twtw ḥḏ qd 6 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr
9	ḥsb.t 8.t ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 20

convex

1	(Year 9?, month?). (Thus has paid) to the bank at Syene
2	of which Diognetos is in charge, to the king, for the accounting of the
3	9th year for cloth tax of Elephantine, Pelaias,
4	son of Esyris, which (drachmas) Psentotoes (is owing), copper in silver
5	standard twelve drachmas, only/netto?. -?
6	Through Antinous.

6b	Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis.

convex

7	The tax of the {wheat} <linen> of Elephantine for the 9th regnal year:
8	Psentotoes: 6 silver kite. Issued by Pe[teyris, son of Harnouphis].
9	8th regnal year, 20th of Mesore .

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25540	man	Diognetos, banker	Διόγνητος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	09	Mesore	20	-238 October 2 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315803
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 315803 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 1690), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).