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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3440

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3440
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Publication Status unpublished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 148
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right 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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for 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 laographia, paid by Petorzmethis alias Pabos, son of Harpaesis and Senpetorzmethis
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
1Ζή̣νων Ἡρακ(λείδου) μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱε-
2ρᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Πα-
3χομψᾶχις βοηθ(οῦ). διέ-
4γραψεν Πετόρζμηθις
5ὁ καὶ Παβῶς Ἁρπαή-
6σιος μητρὸς Σενπετορ(ζμήθιος)
7ὑ̣πὲρ λαο̣γραφίας ̣ -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred
2Gate of Syene, through Pa-
3chompsachis, assistant. Thus has
4paid Petorzmethis
5alias Pabos, son of Harpaesis
6and the mother Senpetorzmethis,
7for poll tax ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O3440a_S1_001
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DAIK_O3440_D-DAI-KAI-C
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DAIK_O3440b_S1_001
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DAIK_3440innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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 146 CE 148 CE date according to tax collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O3440a_S1_001
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DAIK_O3440_D-DAI-KAI-C
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DAIK_O3440b_S1_001
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DAIK_3440innen_S2_001
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DAIK_3440_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315971
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 315971 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3440), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).