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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2291

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2291
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Publication Status unpublished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
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 176 and 176
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right

Text Basic Information

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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting hand of scribe Serenus
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and contribution for the men who have fled (merismos andron anakechorekoton)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax and the contribution for the men who have fled, written by scribe Serenus in year 17 of Marc Aurel
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text identification of taxpayer is incertain.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ιϛ (ἔτους) Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
2τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ ̣. διέγ(ραψεν) ΝΝ
3Πετεσούχου μητρὸς Θιν -?- ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογ(ραφίας) ιϛ (ἔτους)
4δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η, δ̣ιὰ Σερήνου βοη(θοῦ).
5ὁ αὐτὸς ιζ (ἔτους) Θὼθ̣ -?-
6καὶ ὑπὲρ μερισ̣μ(οῦ) ἀνδ(ρῶν) ἀνακεχ(ωρηκότων) λήμματ(ος) ιε (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) --- .
convex
1Year 16 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar
2the lord, Mesore ?. Thus has paid Harpaesis?,,
3son of Petesouchos and the mother Thin(peptorzmethis?), for poll tax of year 16,
4eight drachmas, = 8 dr., through the assistant Serenus.
5The same in year 17, Thoth ? ---
6and for the contribution of the men who have fled of year 15 drachmas ---
DAIK_2291_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26870 man Harpaesis, son of Petesouchos and Senpetorzmethis Ἁρπαῆσις Πετεσούχου Σενπετορζμήτιος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius 17 Thoth 176 August CE 176 September CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_2291_S1_001
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DAIK_2291innen_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315865
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315865 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2291), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).