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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2373

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2373
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Publication Status unpublished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 133 and
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
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Iulius Sabinus and Valerius Capito and their associate supervisors of Syene for trade tax of year 16 of Hadrian, paid by Psais, son of Zmenpos and the mother Senpsansnos; with signature of Valerius Capito
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἰούλιος Σ̣αβεῖνος καὶ Οὐαλέριος Καπίτων καὶ οἱ σὺν
2α(ὐτοῖς) πιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψεν Ψάις Ζμετ̣πῶτος
3μητρὸς Σενψανσνῶτος ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου ἑπτακαιδεκάτου ἔτους
4Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον). (ἔτους) ιη̣
5Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου, Ἁδριανίου ι. Οὐαλέριος
6ἐσημιωσάμην (δραχμὰς) εἴκο-
7σι ὀβολοὺς δύο.
convex
1Iulius Sabinus and Valerius Capito and their
2associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid Psais, son of Zmenpos
3and the mother Senpsansnos, for trade tax of the seventeenth year
4of Hadrian the lord, twenty drachmas two obols, = 20 dr. 2 ob. In year 18
5of Hadrian the lord, Hadrianos 10. (hd. 2) Valerius,
6I have signed for drachmas
7twenty obols two.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13000 man Iulius Sabinus epiteretes Ioulios Sabeinos Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 18 Hadrianos 10 133 December 6 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O2373_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315880
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 315880 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2373), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).