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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4285 + OGL 1299

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4285 + OGL 1299
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Publication Status unpublished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 134 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation joined of two fragments, upper left corner and parts of the lower end still missing

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) joined of two fragments
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting praktor Petorzmethis alias Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats and guard posts (merismos potamophylakidon and stationos)
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Petorzmethis (alias Pachompsachis), praktor of Elephantine, for merismoi for river police boats and stationos, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis in year 19 of Hadrian
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πετόρζμηθις πράκτωρ Ἐλεφαντίνης. διέγραψεν
2Π̣άτσειβ̣δις Π̣ετορζμήθου ὑπὲρ μερι-
3σμοῦ ποταμοφυλάκιδος σὺν στατίωνος ιθ (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰν (δραχμὴν) α (τετρώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον) (δίχαλκον).
4(ἔτους) ιθ Ἁδριαν̣οῦ τοῦ κυρίου
5Ἁδρ̣ιανοῦ κζ̅.
convex
1Petorzmethis, tax collector at Elephantine. Thus has paid
2Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis, for the contribution
3for river police boats and guard posts of year 19, brutto, 1 dr. 4,5 ob. 2 ch.
4Year 19 of Hadrian the lord,
5Hadrianos 17.
DAIK_O4285_S1_001
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OGL_1299_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4791 man Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia, grandson of Psansnos Πατσιβτις Πετορζμήθου Σενπελαίας, τοῦ Ψανσνῶτ(ος) (WO 125) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 19 Hadrianos 27 134 December 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4285_S1_001
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OGL_1299_S1_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 316040
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 316040 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4285 + OGL 1299), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).