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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4355

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4355
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Publication Status	unpublished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 118 and 120

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 and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for harbour dues (enhormion)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Currently unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| list
Summary of Content	Receipt for harbour dues from the port officer (ho ascholoumenos ten hormophylakian) at Syene (Aswan), Antonios Malchaios, acknowledging receipt of dues on cargoes over the past four months Thoth - Choiak, paid by Harpaesis, son of Ammonios, which is the son of Thinhermogenes
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	grandmother's name in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖο(ς) ὁ ἀσχολούμενος
2	τὴν ὁρμοφυλακίαν Σοή(νης) Ἁρπαήσι Ἀμμωνίο(υ)
3	Ψενθιερμογένει χα(ίρειν). ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ
4	τὸ ἐνόρμιον ἀγωγίων ὧν ἐποιήσου
5	τὰ ἀπὸ Θ̣ωθ ἕως Χοιὰκ λ τοῦ ? (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου -?-
7	α ̣ -?-
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	Antonius Malchaios, tax farmer
2	of the harbour guard of Syene, to Harpaesis, son of Ammonios,
3	the son of Thinhermogenes, greeting. I have received from you
4	the harbour fee for cargoes you have made
5	from Thoth until Choiak 30 of year ? of Hadrian
6	Caesar the lord ---
7	---
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
15530	man	Antonios Malchaios	Ἀντῶνις Μαλχαοῖς	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian				118 CE 120 CE	Hadrian 2-4;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316086
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 316086 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4355), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).