Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4617

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4617
Publication Number	ined
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Publication Status	unpublished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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between -99 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range 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
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Demotic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the tax on perfums (myrou tetarte)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios (Trapezit)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Bank receipt of the banker Ammonios for the tax on perfum (myrou tetarte) paid by Harmais, with demotic subscription: Date, tax type, amount of money.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription: Date, tax type, amount of money.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ἔτους ιε Μεχείρ.
2	τέτακται ἐπὶ τὴν ἐν Συήνῃ τράπεζαν
3	ἐφ' ἧς Ἀμμὠνιος εἰς τὸ
4	αὐτὸ (ἔτος) μύρου (τετάρτης)
5	Ἁρμάις χαλκοῦ οὗ ἀλλαγὴ δραχμὰς
6	χιλίας, (γίνονται) Ἀ. Ἀμμώνιος τραπεζίτης.

convex

7a	ḥsb.t 16
7b	ꜥnṱ ¹There are known to me currently two “parfumeurs” attested in Demotic: Stela München, SMÄK ex Harer Family Trust: J. MOJE, Demotische Epigraphik aus Dandara: Die demotischen Grabstelen, Berlin, London 2008 (IBAES 9), cat. 19; Graffito in Al-Buwayb presumably Early Roman): F. COLIN, “Le parfumeur (pꜣ ꜥnṱ)”, in: BIFAO 103 (2003), 73 – 109, doc. 1.

¹ There are known to me currently two “parfumeurs” attested in Demotic: Stela München, SMÄK ex Harer Family Trust: J. MOJE, Demotische Epigraphik aus Dandara: Die demotischen Grabstelen, Berlin, London 2008 (IBAES 9), cat. 19; Graffito in Al-Buwayb presumably Early Roman): F. COLIN, “Le parfumeur (pꜣ ꜥnṱ)”, in: BIFAO 103 (2003), 73 – 109, doc. 1.

convex

ἈΣ

convex

ḥḏ dbn 60

convex

1	Year 15, Mechir.
2	Thus has paid to the bank in Syene
3	of which Ammonios is in charge, for the
4	same year for the quarter of perfum,
5	Harmais, copper drachmas including agio
6	one thousand, = 1000. Ammonios, banker.
7a	16th regnal year.
7b	parfum (tax):
8	1200 (drachmas).
8b	60 deben.

DAI 4617_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

Συήνῃ (places.xml#8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4005	man	Ammonios (Trapezit)	Ἀμμώνιος = Ἀμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios X Alexander I + Cleopatra III	15	Mecheir		-99 February 14 BCE March 15	date in text;

Pictures

DAI 4617_S1_001

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DAI 4617-2_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315838
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 315838 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 4617), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).