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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3670

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3670
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Publication Status unpublished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

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
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for harbour dues (enhormion)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content REceipt for harbour dues from the port officer (ho ascholoumenos ten hormophylakian) at Syene (Aswan), Antonios Malchaios, acknowledging receipt of dues on cargoes over the past four months Thoth - Choiak?, according to an agreement.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖος ὁ ἀσχ̣ολούμενος τὴν ὁρ-
2μοφυλακίαν Σοήνης ΝΝ ι Σανσνῶτος χαίρειν. ἔχω
3παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐνόρμιον ἀγωγίων ὧν ἐποιήσου τ̣ὰ ἀπὸ Θ̣ω̣θ
4ἕως Χοιακ λ ἐπὶ λόγ(ου) κατὰ τὴν συμφωνίαν
5τοῦ ̣ (ἔτους) -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Antonius Malchaios, tax farmer
2of the harbour guard of Syene, to ---, son of Sansnos, greeting. I have received
3from you the harbour fee for cargoes you have made from Thoth
4until Choiak 30, on account according to the agreement
5of year ? of Hadrian ? ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O3670_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15530 man Antonios Malchaios Ἀντῶνις Μαλχαοῖς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 118 CE 120 CE date according to the collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O3670_S1_001
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DAIK_O3670_D-DAI-KAI-C
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DAIK_3670_S1_001
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DAIK_3670innen_S2_002
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315980
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 315980 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3670), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).