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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4272

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4272
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Publication Status unpublished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 100 and 300
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

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 4+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for tax on fishermen (tetarte halieon)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt for the tax of fishermen (tetarte halieon)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- ναπ? Ψεντεμσῶς
2 -?- εἴδους τετάρτης ἁλιέων
3 -?- μ̣ηνὸς Τυβι τὰς ἐπιβαλούσας αὐτοῖς̣
4 -?- ̣ δ̣ια̣κοσίας τεσσερά-
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
convex
1--- nap? Psentemsos?
2--- of the tax of the quarter of the fishermen
3--- for the month Tybi the drachmas due to them
4--- two hundred fourty?
y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DAIK_O4272_S1_001
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
100 CE 300 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4272_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316031
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 316031 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4272), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).