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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4373

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4373
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Publication Status	unpublished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 180 and
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 poll tax (laographia) and contribution for the men who have fled (merismos andron anakechorekoton)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for poll tax of year 20 and the contribution for the men who have fled of year 19 of Marc Aurel and Commodus, written by the assistant Serenus
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

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1	κ (ἔτους) Αὐρηλίων Ἀντωνίνου καὶ
2	Κο̣μμόδου Καίσαρων τῶν κυρίων
3	Παχὼ̣ν ̣. διέγ(ραψεν) -?- Παπρε-?
4	μίθου μητρὸς Τ-?- ὑπ(ὲρ) λαογ(ραφίας)
5	κ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) ιζ (ὀβολόν), καὶ ὑπ̣ὲρ μερισμ(οῦ) ἀνδ(ρῶν) ἀνα-
6	κεχωρηκότων λήμματος ιθ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) ? διὰ
7	Σερήνου βο̣η̣θοῦ.

convex

1	In year 20 of Aurelius Antoninus and
2	Aurelius Commodus Caesares the lords,
3	Pachon ?. Thus has paid ---, son of Papre-
4	mithes and the mother T---, for poll tax
5	of year 20 drachmas 17 obol 1, and for the contribution for men who have
6	fled for the accounting of year 19, drachas ---, through
7	the assistant Serenus.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12490	man	Serenos scribe	Serenos	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Commodus	20	Pachons		180 April 26 CE 180 May 25 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316103
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 316103 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4373), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).