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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2500

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2500
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Publication Status unpublished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 159 and
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary.hand of Serenus
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Serenos, for unknown tax of year 23? of Antoninus, paid by Thinpsansnetorzmethis, on account of Kalasiris?
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as tax payer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὔλπιος Κελ̣εάριος μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς
2πύλ(ης) Σοή(νης) διὰ Σερήνου βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Θινψανσ-
3νως Πετορζμήθου ὑπὲρ ὀνόματος Καλ̣α̣σίρεως
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred
2Gate of Syene, through the assistant Serenus. Thus has paid Thinpsans-
3nos, daughter of Petorzmethis, on account of Kalasiris
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_2500_S1_001
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DAIK_2500innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12490 man Serenos scribe Serenos Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 23 159 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term;

 

Pictures

DAIK_2500_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_2500innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315901
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 315901 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2500), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).