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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4281

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4281
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Publication Status unpublished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

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 top and left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting hand of Hermogenes
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

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 of practor Hermogenes for laographia of year ? of Trajan
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1 -?- ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογρα̣φ̣(ίας) ̣ ̣
x+2 -?- (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ
x+3Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου -?- (δραχμὰς) δεκ̣αέξ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.
convex
x – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1--- for poll tax of the ---
x+2--- year of Trajan
x+3Caesar the lord --- dr. sixteen, = 16 dr.
DAIK_O4281_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4443 man Hermogenes (Ammonatos) praktor Ἑρμογένης Αμμωνατος πρακτωρ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 97 CE 109 CE date according to the collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4281_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316036
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 316036 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4281), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).