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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4349

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4349
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Publication Status	unpublished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 138 and 139
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	surface covered by residue
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petesouchos praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	REceipt of praktor Petesouchos for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon) for year 2 of Antoninus, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Harpaesis, grandson? of Alexandros.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4251	man	Petesouchos praktor	Πετεσουχος	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	02			138 CE 139 CE	date in text;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	316083
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 316083 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4349), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).