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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4552 + 4593 + 4613

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4552 + 4593 + 4613
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Publication Status unpublished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 90 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation joined of three fragments

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) joined of three fragments
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Sokrates for laographia of year 9 of Domitianus, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis in year 10.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν Πετόρζμηθις Πετορζμήθεως
2ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ἐνάτου
3(ἔτους) Δομι̣τ̣ι̣ανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ιϛ. Σωκράτης
5πράκτωρ ἔγραψα τῶι
6ι (ἔτει) Χοιὰκ ι̅α̅.
convex
1Thus has paid Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis,
2for poll tax of the ninth
3year of Domitian the lord,
4silver dr. 16. Sokrates,
5collector, I have written in the
6year 10, Choiak 11.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4255 man Petorzmethis, son of Petorzmethis (Vesp/Domit) Πετορζμῆθις Πετροζμήθιος pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 10 Choiak 11 90 December 7 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316151
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 316151 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4552 + 4593 + 4613), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).