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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4317

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4317
Publication Number	ined
Current Location	magazine Assuan
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Publication Status	unpublished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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 32 and 33
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Surface abraded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	surface abraded
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of scribe Petorzmethis demotic subscript
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for poll tax for year 19 of Tiberius, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Paonnophris; with demotic subscript of Petorzmethis (praktor?).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	demotic needs check
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Διακεγράφηκε ¹l. διαγεγράφηκε
2	Πετορζμηθι Παωννω ²l. Πετορζμῆθις Παοννώφριος ?
3	ὑπὲρ λαγρα(φίας) ³l. λαογραφίας τοῦ ιθ (ἔτους)
4	Τειβερίου ⁴l. Τιβερίου Καίσαρος
5	Σεβασδος ⁵l. Σεβαστοῦ ἀργ̣υ̣(ρίου) (δραχμὰς) ὀκτώ,
6	(γίνονται)(δραχμαὶ) η.

¹ l. διαγεγράφηκε
² l. Πετορζμῆθις Παοννώφριος ?
³ l. λαογραφίας
⁴ l. Τιβερίου
⁵ l. Σεβαστοῦ

convex

7	ḥsb.t 19 Pꜣ-dı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sttr 2.t

convex

1	Thus has paid
2	Petorzmethis, son of Paonno(phris?)
3	for poll tax of year 19
4	of Tiberius Caesar
5	Augustus eight silver drachmas,
6	= 8 dr.
7	19th regnal year. Petosirsmetis. 2 staters.

DAIK 4317_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27575	man	Petorzmethis, son of Paonnophris		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	19			32 CE 33 CE	date in demotic text;

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DAIK 4317_S1_001

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Literature

Duttenhöfer, Ruth, A Bilingual Scribe in Early Roman Tax Receipts from Elephantine (2021). ()

DatasetID	315850
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 315850 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4317), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).