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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4534

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4534
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Publication Status	unpublished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
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for laographia of year 2 and desmophylakon, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Ammonios and Thinephotes in year 3 of Hadrian.
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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Transcription

Translation

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1	Οὐαλερίων̣ καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς
2	πύλης Σοήν̣ης διὰ Σαραπίωνος γ̣ρ̣αμματέως.
3	διέγραψ(εν) Πετόρζμηθις Ἀμ-
4	μωνίου̣ μη̣τρὸς Θινεφώτου
5	λαο(γραφίας) β (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
6	δραχ(μὰς) δ̣εκαεπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον),
7	δεσμο(φυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολόν). (ἔτους) γ
7	Ἁδρια̣νοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
9	vac. Τῦβ̣ι β̅

convex

1	Valerion and the other tax farmers of the Sacred
2	gate of Syene, through Sarapion, scribe.
3	Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Am-
4	monios and the mother Thinephotes,
5	for poll tax of year 2 of Hadrian the lord,
6	seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob.,
7	for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob. In year 3
8	of Hadrian the lord,
9	Tybi 2.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42380	man	Petorzmethis, son of Ammonios and Thinephotes		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	03	Tybi	02	118 December 28 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316136
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 316136 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4534), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).