Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3657

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3657
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

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]

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for laographia and desmophylakon, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Psenchnoubis and Tachnoubis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ μισθωταὶ
2	ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος
3	γραμματέως. διέγραψεν Πα-
4	χνοῦβις Ψενχνούβεως
5	μητρὸς Ταχνοῦβις λαογραφίας κ (ἔτους)
6	Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου τοῦ κυρίου
7	δραχμὰς ὀκτώι ¹l. ὀκτώ), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η, Παχὼν κ̅ε̅.
8	Μεσορὴι ²l. Μεσορη ι̅ς̅ ἄλλας δραχμὰς
9	ἐννέα (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσμοφυλάκων (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ (ὀβολόν),
10	(γίνονται) ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολόν), σὺν αἷς
11	κ̣α̣ὶ̣ ἐδ̣εξάμην σοι ὑπὲρ Βαβ?

¹ l. ὀκτώ)
² l. Μεσορη

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1	Valerion and the other tax farmers
2	of the Sacred gate of Syene, through Sarapion,
3	scribe. Thus has paid Pa-
4	chnoubis, son of Psenchnoubis
5	and the mother Tachnoubis, for poll tax of year 20
6	of Traianus Optimus the lord,
7	eight drachmas, = 8 dr., Pachon 25.
8	Mesore 16, further drachmas
9	nine 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 9 dr. 1 ob.,
10	= all in all 17 dr. 1 ob., including the drachmas which
11	I also have recieved for you on behalf of Bab--- .

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25370	man	Pachnoubis, son of Psenchnoubis (Domitian)	Παχνοῦβις Ψενχνο	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	20	Pachons	25	117 May 20 CE	date in text;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315978
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 315978 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3657), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).