Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4259

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4259
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Publication Status	unpublished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]

Object Type	ostracon
Rotation	around vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete.

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave (outside/inside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. Outside: The text covers enarl the entire surface of the pothsherd, without lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	65	48
Column Height (in mm)	63	5
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	65 x 63	48 x 5

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Chnoumorchois, son of [///] Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Paapis, son of ⸢..?..⸣, is confirmed by Chnoumorchois, son of ⸢///⸣, of having paid the yoke tax for the 7th regnal year in an amount of 2 kite. Greek subscription: Name of payer as Πααπε and amount in Greek currency (4 drachmas).
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription: Name of payer as Πααπε and amount in Greek currency (4 drachmas).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1	Thus has brought Paapis, son of ⸢..?..⸣,
2	2 kite for the yoke tax for the [7th] regnal year.
3	Issued by Chnoumorchois, son of ⸢///⸣. 7th regnal year,
4	2nd(?) of Payni.
cc1	Paape: 4 drachmas.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
32570	man	Paniskos, son of ⸢..?..⸣	Pa-Mn sꜣ ⸢..?..⸣ / Πανισ(κοσ)	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	07	Payni	02(?)	-278 July 26 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	316029
last Change	16.08.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316029 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4259), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).