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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2374

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2374
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Publication Status unpublished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 80 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient

 

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 praktor Sokrates for cheironaxion of year 2 of Titus, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετορζμῆθις Πετορζμήθου ὑπὲρ χιρωναξίου 1l. χειρωναξίου
2δευτέρου (ἔτους) Τίτου Καίσαρος
3τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ̅ ἀργυρίου
4(δραχμὰς) ἴκοσει 2l. εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον).
5Σωκράτης ἔγραψα.

1 l. χειρωναξίου
2 l. εἴκοσι
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis, for trade tax
2of the second year of Titus Caesar
3the lord, Mesore 20, silver
4drachmas twenty obols two, = 20 dr. 2 ob.
5Sokrates, I have written.
DAIK_O2374_ELE-43-PW-0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4255 man Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis (Vesp/Domit) Πετορζμῆθις Πετροζμήθιος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Titus 02 Mesore 30 80 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O2374_ELE-43-PW-0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315881
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 315881 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2374), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).