Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4298

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4298
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

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 Type

ostracon

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

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and Sentithoes
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Valerios Thytomous? scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Kalasiris for the contribution of river police boats, through the scribe Valeris, son of Thytomous, paid by Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and Sentithoes, in year 16 of Hadrian.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	Καλασῖρις πράκτωρ. διέγραψε Ζμενπ(ῶς) Ἁρπ(αήσεως)
2	μητρὸς Σενθιθοήους μερισμ̣οῦ ποτ(αμῶν) φυλ(ακίδος) ις (ετους) Ἁδριανοῦ
3	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὴν μίαν ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμὴν) α (διώβολον). Οὐαλέριος Θυτ(ομοῦτος)
4	ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα. (ἔτους) ι̅ς̣̅ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
5	Μεχεὶρ κ̣̅β̣̅.

convex

1	Kalasiris, tax collector. Thus has paid Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis
2	and the mother Senthithoes, for the contribution of river police boats of year 16 of Hadrian
3	the lord, one drachma two obols, = 1 dr. 2 ob. Valerios, son of Thytomous,
4	I have written for him, since he does not know how to write. Year 16 of Hadrian the lord,
5	Mechir 22.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12470	man	Kalasiris praktor	Kalasiris praktor	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	16	Mecheir	22	132 February 17 CE	date in text;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316048
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 316048 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4298), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).