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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4539

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4539
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Publication Status	unpublished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 166 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution (merimos)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios, scribe of Asinnius (boethos?)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Longinus Serenus and Petronius Bassianus, collector for money taxes at Elephantine, for the contribution of year 5, paid by Harpaesis, son of Panapotis and Senpapremithes. with signature of Petronius Bassianus
Location of Composition	Elephantine 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	Λονγεῖνος Σερῆνος καὶ Πε-
2	τρώνιος Βασιανὸς πράκτορες
3	ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης. διέγραψεν Ἁρπά-
4	ησις Παναπώτεως μητρὸς
5	Σενπ̣α̣π̣ρεμίθου ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ ε (ἔτους)
6	τὰς̣ λ̣οιπὰς (δραχμὰς) τ̣ρ̣ε̣ῖ̣ς̣ ἡμιωβέλιον, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) γ (ἡμιωβέλιον). (ἔτους) ϛ
7	Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων
8	τῶν κυρίων Μεχεὶρ κ̅δ̅. Π̣ε̣τ̣ρ̣ωι̣-
9	νο̣ς̣ Βασσιανός.

convex

1	Longinus Serenus and
2	Petronius Bassianus, collectors
3	of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid Harpa-
4	esis, son of Panapotis and the mother
5	Senpapremithes, for the contribution of year 5
6	of Antoninus and Verus Caesares
7	the lords, Mechir 24. (h. 2) Petro-
8	nius Bassianus.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25345	man	Harpaesis, son of Panapotis and Senpapremithes	Ἁρπαῆσις Παναπῶτεως Σενπαπρεμείθου	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus	06	Mecheir	24	166 February 18 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316141
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 316141 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4539), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).