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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2353

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2353
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Publication Status unpublished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 119 and 120
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting hand of Sarapion, scribe of Sanmous
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats of year 4 of Hadrian, written by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σανμοῦς πράκ(τωρ). διέγραψεν
2 -?- Πετορζμήθεως
3 -?- ε̣ρ̣ο? ⟦μερ ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
4ποταμοφυλ(ακίδος) δ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
5τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰν (δραχμὴν) α (πεντώβολον). Σαραπίων
6γρ(αμματεὺς) ἔγρ(αψα). Monat, Tag.
convex
1Sanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid
2---, son of Petorzmethis
3--- for the contribution
4of river police boats of year 4 of Hadrian
5the lord, brutto, 1 dr. 5 ob. Sarapion,
6scribe, I have written, (month, day)
DAIK_O2353_ELE-43-PW-0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4776 man Sanmous praktor Σανμοῦς pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 04 119 CE 120 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O2353_ELE-43-PW-0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315871
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 315871 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2353), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).