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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2370

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2370
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Publication Status unpublished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 188 and
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
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contributions (merismoi)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of year 28 of Commodus for the contribution for river police boats and other charges (dapane), written by the assistant Ammonios (cf. Eleph. 4725), paid by Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis and Tanlilauis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1κη (ἔτους)// Φαρμοῦθι ιθ. διέγραψεν
2Βίηνχις Πετορζμήθου μητρὸς Τανλ̣ιλαούεως
3ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ποταμοφυλακίδων καὶ ἄλλων δαπανῶν
4κη (ἔτους) (δραχμὴν) α (τριώβολον).
1In year 28, Pharmouthi 19. Thus has paid
2Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother Tanlilauis,
3for the contribution for river police boats and other expenditures
4of year 28, 1 dr. 3 ob.
DAIK_O2370_ELE-43-PW-0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42170 man Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis and Tanlilauis pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Commodus 28 Pharmuthi 19 188 April 14 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O2370_ELE-43-PW-0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315877
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 315877 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2370), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).