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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2545 + 4530

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2545 + 4530
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Publication Status	unpublished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 163 and
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	joined of two fragments, broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	hand of Serenus
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, and Valerius Serenus and his associate supervisors (epiteretai) through the assistant Serenos, for poll tax of year 4 of Marc Aurel and Verus,
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Οὔλπιος Κελεᾶρις μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοή(νης) καὶ Οὐαλέριος
2	Σερῆνος καὶ (οἱ) σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιτηρηταῖς τῆς αὐτῆς π̣ύλ(ης) διὰ Σερήνου βοηθ(οῦ).
3	διέγραψεν Μενε̣ὺς Πετεπουή̣ρεως μητ(ρὸς) -?-
4	ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας δ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς ὀκτ̣ὼ, (γίνονται) (δρ.) η. (ἔτους) δ Ἀντωνίνου
5	καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων -?-
6	ὁ αὐτὸς Μεσορὴ κ̅ε̅ ἄλλας δραχμὰς ̣ -?-

convex

1	Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, and Valerius
2	Serenus and his associate supervisors of the same Gate, through the assistant Serenus.
3	Has paid Meneus, son of Petepoueris and the mother ---
4	for poll tax of year 4 drachmas eight, = 8 dr. In year 4 of Antoninus
5	an Verus Caesares the lords ---
6	The same on Mesore 25 further drachmas ---

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38770	man	Meneus, son of Petepoueris	Μενευς Πετεπουήρεως	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus	04	Mesore	25	163 August 18 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315918
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 315918 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2545 + 4530), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).