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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3680

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3680
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Publication Status unpublished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 23 and 24
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting hand of bilingual scribe Petorzmethis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7

 

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 for laographia of year 10 of Tiberius, with signature of Pelaias, son of Ariston; receipt written probably by Petosorsmethis (bilingual scribe)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διακεγράφηκε Kτε-
2χνοῦβιςπὲρ λα-
3γραφίας τοῦ x (ἔτους)
4Τειβερίου Καίσαρος
5Σεβαστος ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ὀκτώ,
6(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η. (2. Η.) Πελαίας Ἀρίστωνος
7ἐπηκολλούθηκα δραχμὰς (δρ.) η.
convex
1Thus has paid Kte-
2chnoubis, for poll
3tax of year ?
4of Tiberius Caesar
5Augustus, eight silver drachmas,
6= 8 dr. (hand 2) Pelaias, son of Ariston,
7I have checked the 8 drachmas.
DAIK_O3680_D-DAI-KAI-C
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4745 man Ktechnoubis, son of Pachnoubis Κτεχνοῦβις Παχνούβιος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 23 CE 24 CE date according to scribe's time of activity;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O3680_D-DAI-KAI-C
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315986
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 315986 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3680), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).