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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4356

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4356
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Publication Status unpublished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 173 and
Criteria for Dating date in text

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 6+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contributions (merismoi)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of praktores Asinnius, son of Didymos, and Ammonios, through Ammonios?, for the contributions of year 13, namely for haliados (fishing boats), ploiou praitoriou (the boat of the praetorium) and towing of boats (parolkon), paid by Panapotis, son of Petorzmethis---
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀσίννιος Διδύμου καὶ Ἀμμώνιο̣ς̣ πράκ(τορες)
2ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης δι᾿ Ἀμμω̣ν̣ί̣ο̣υ̣. διέγ(ραψεν)
3Πανάπωτις? Πετροζμήθεως μ̣ητ(ρὸς) -?- ὑπ(ὲρ)
4μερισμῶν ιγ (ἔτους) ἁλιάδος -?-, πλοίου
5πραιτωρίου (ὀβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον), παρολκῶν? -?-
6(ἔτους) ιγ// Ἐ̣π̣εὶφ -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
1Asinnius, son of Didymos, and Ammonios, collectors
2of money taxes at Elephantine, through Ammonios. Thus has paid
3Panapotis, son of Petorzmethis and the mother ---, for
4contributions of year 13, for fishing boats ---, the ship
5of the praetorium 1 1/2 ob., for towing? ---
6In year 13, Epeiph ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O4356_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
575 man Ammonios (praktor mit Asinnius) Ἀμῶνις pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius 13 Epeiph 173 June 25 CE 173 July 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4356_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316087
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 316087 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4356), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).