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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3561

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3561
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Publication Status unpublished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 116 and 117
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+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 Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for poll tax of year 20 of Trajan, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis and Senpatchnautis
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
1Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς
2πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος γραμματέως.
3διέγραψεν Πετόρζμηθις Ἁρπαή-
4σεως μητρὸς Σενπατχναῦτις 1l. Σενπατχναύτιος λαογραφίας
5κ (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ Ἀ̣ρ̣ί̣σ̣τ̣ο̣υ̣ τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ κ̣υρίου̣
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

1 l. Σενπατχναύτιος
convex
1Valerion and the other tax farmers of the Sacred
2gate of Syene, through Sarapion, scribe.
3Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis
4and the mother Senpatchnautis, for poll tax
5of year 20 of Traianus Optimus the lord
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O3561_D-DAI-KAI-C
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DAIK_3561_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42230 man Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis and Senpatchnautis pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 20 116 CE 117 CE ;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O3561_D-DAI-KAI-C
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_3561_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_3561innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315973
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 315973 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3561), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).