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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4297

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4297
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Publication Status	unpublished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 -300 and -200
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for pasture tax (ennomion)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary | account
Summary of Content	Receipt for pasture tax (ennomion) of a first year of an unknown ptolemaic ruler,paid by Dioskourides? and Karisios
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42335	man	Dioskourides (ptol)		Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)	07	Pachons		-300 BCE -200 BCE	palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316047
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 316047 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4297), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).