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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4314

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4314
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Publication Status unpublished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 135
Criteria for Dating date in text
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 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for date palms (akrodrya phoinikonos)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Gellius Perses and Triadelphos, son of Sarapion, and their associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Sarapion(2), for the survey tax for palm groves, paid by Petesouchos, son of Harpaesis, and his brother, through Umenpos, son of Harpaesis, in year 19 of Hadrian
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Γέλλι̣ο̣ς Πέρσης καὶ Τ̣ριάδελ(φος) Σαραπ(ίωνος) καὶ οἱ
2σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοή(νης) διὰ Σαραπ(ίωνος)
3βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Πετεσοῦχος Ἁρπ(αήσεως) καὶ -?-
4ἀδελφὸς? διὰ Ζμετπῶτος Ἁρπ(αήσεως) ὑπ(ὲρ) γεομ(ετρίας)
5φοινικώνος γενήματος ιη (ἔτους) ἀπὸ (δραχμῶν) κ (ὀβολοῦ) χ̣(αλκῶν) β ῥυπ(αρὰς) δραχ(μὰς)
6τρεῖς ὀβολοὺς δύο (δίχαλκον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) γ (διώβολον) (δίχαλκον). (ἔτους) ιθ
7Ἀδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, -?-
convex
1Gellius Perses and Triadelphos, son of Sarapion, and their
2associate supervisors of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through Sarapion,
3assistant. Thus has paid Petesouchos, son of Harpaesis and ---
4his brother, through Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis, for the survey tax
5of palm groves of the harvest of year 18, of 20 dr. 1 ob. 2 ch., brutto, drachmas
6three obols two and two chalkoi, = 3 dr. 2 ob. 2 ch. In year 19
7of Hadrian Caesar the lord ---
DAIK_O4314_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
21970 man Gellius Perses epiteretes Γέλλιος Πέρσης Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
134 CE 135 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4314_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316056
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 316056 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4314), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).