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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2493

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2493
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Publication Status unpublished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 146 and
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and 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 and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) and poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Soene through Pachompsachis, assistant, for trade tax and poll tax of year 9 or Antoninus, paid by Petorzmethid, son of Petorzmethis and Senpatrasnouphis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene 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
1Ζήνων Ἡρακλείδο̣υ μ̣ισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης)
2Σοήνης διὰ Παχόμψαχοι̣ς βοηθ(οῦ)
3διέγρα(ψεν) Πετόρζμηθ̣ις Πετορ-
4ζμήθ(ου) μητρὸς Σενπατρασνούφ(εως)
5ὑπ(ὲρ) χει̣ρωναξίου θ (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰς δραχ(μὰς) εἴκοσι
6ὀβολ(οὺς) δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον), ὁ αὐτὸς λ̣αο(γραφίας) θ (ἔτους)
7ῥυπ(αρὰς) δ]ραχμὰς δέκα ὀβ̣ολ(οὺς) τέσσα-
8ρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ι (τετρώβολον). (ἔτους) ι Ἀντωνίνου
9Καίσαρος τοῦ κυ[ρίου]
10μηνὸς Ἁδριανοῦ
11κζ̅.
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate
2of Syene, through Pachompsachis, assistant.
3Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Petor-
4zmethis and the mother Senpatrasnouphis,
5for trade tax of year 9, brutto, drachmas twenty
6obols two, = 20 dr. 2 ob. The same for poll tax of year 9,
7brutto, drachmas ten obols four,
8= 10 dr. 4 ob. In year 10 of Antoninus
9Caesar the lord,
10in the month Hadrianos,
1127.
DAIK_2493ir_S1_001
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DAIK_2493innen_S2_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12740 man Pachompsachis scribe Παχομψᾶχις boethos Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 10 Hadrianos 27 146 December 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_2493ir_S1_001
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DAIK_2493innen_S2_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315894
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 315894 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2493), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).