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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4533

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4533
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Publication Status	unpublished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 170 and 171
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
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	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios I scribe Tithoetion epiteretes
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ammonios, collector of the poll tax (apaitetes laographias) of year 10 of Marc Aurel, paid by Harpaesis, son of Panapotis, signed by Tithoetion, supervisor.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Ἀμμώνιος ἀπαιτητὴς λαο(γραφίας). διέγ(ραψεν)
2	Ἁρπαῆσις Παναπώτεως μητ(ρὸς) Θιν ---
3	ὑ̣π̣ὲρ λ̣α̣ο̣γραφίας ι (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ ὀβολ(όν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). (ἔτους) ια
4	Αὐρηλίοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ---
5	Τιθ̣οητίων ἐπιτηρητὴς σεσημ(είωμαι).

convex

1	Ammonios, collector of poll tax. Thus has paid
2	Harpaesis, son of Panapotis and the mother Thin---
3	for poll tax of year 10, seventeen drachmas one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. In year 11
4	of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord ---
5	(h. 2) Tithoetion, supervisor, I have signed.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12570	man	Ammonios I scribe	Αμμωνιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius	11			170 CE 171 CE	date according to tax collector's time of office;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316135
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 316135 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4533), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).