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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4717

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4717
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Publication Status unpublished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 83 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) surface abraded
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting same hand as in SB V 7586
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for monthly trade tax
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for monthly trade tax of year 2 of Domitian, paid by the woman Heraklous, 4 dr.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender woman as tax payer trade tax
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν ὑπὲρ χιροναξί̣ο̣υ̣
2Ἡρακλ̣ο̣ῦς τοῦ β (ἔτους) Δομε̣τ̣ι̣α̣ν̣ο̣ῦ̣
3τοῦ κυρίου ἕως Μεσορὴ λ̅ ἐπὶ
4λόγου δραχμὰς τέσσαρες,
5(γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
convex
1Thus has paid for trade tax
2Heraklous of year 2 of Domitian
3the lord, until Mesore 30, on
4account, four drachmas,
5= 4 dr.
DAIK_O4717_ELE-45-PW-0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38820 woman Heraklous Ἡρακλ̣ο̣ῦς Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 02 Mesore 30 83 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4717_ELE-45-PW-0
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316026
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 316026 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4717), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).