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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4259

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

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

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ı͗n Pa-Ḥꜥpı͗ sꜣ
2ḥḏ qd 2 ⸢n ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t⸣ 7
3n-ḏr.t H̱nm-ı͗. ı͗r-rḫ-s sꜣ /// ḥsb.t 7
4ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 2(?)
V
cc1Πααπε ⱶ δ

1Thus has brought Paapis, son of ⸢..?..⸣,
22 kite for the yoke tax for the [7th] regnal year.
3Issued by Chnoumorchois, son of ⸢///⸣. 7th regnal year,
42nd(?) of Payni.
cc1Paape: 4 drachmas.
DAIK_O4259b_S2_001
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DAIK_O4259a_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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. ;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4259b_S2_001
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DAIK_O4259a_S1_001
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Literature

 

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).