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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4559

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4559
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Publication Status	unpublished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 147 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top left corner

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 top left corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachompsachis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Soene through Pachompsachis, assistant, for trade tax and poll tax of year 10 or Antoninus, paid by Harpaesis, son of Zmenpos and Thinpsansnos.
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

Text

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convex

1	Ζήνων Ἡρακλείδου μ̣ισθωτὴς ἱε-
2	ρᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ
3	Παχομψᾶχις βοηθοῦ. δι-
4	έγραψεν Ἁρπάησις Ζμεν-
5	τπῶτος μ̣ητρὸς Θινψαν-
6	σνῶτος ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου ι (ἔτους)
7	ῥυπαρὰς ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς δέκα
8	δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ. (ἔτους) ι Ἀντωνείνου
9	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
10	Μεσορὴ α̅.
11	ἐπαγομένων γ̅ διέγραψεν ὁ αὐτὸς χειρω̣ναξίου
12	ι (ἔτους) ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ ὀ̣βολοὺς
13	δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η (διώβολον).

convex

1	Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through
3	Pachompsachis, assistant. Thus
4	has paid Harpaesis, son of Zmen-
5	pos and the mother Tinpsan-
6	snos, for trade tax of year 10,
7	brutto, on account, drachmas twelve,
8	= 12 dr. In year 10 of Antoninus
9	Caesar the lord,
10	Mesore 1.
11	on the 3rd epagomene has paid the same for trade tax
12	of year 10, brutto, drachmas 8 obols
13	two, = 8 dr. 2 ob.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22435	man	Harpaesis, son of Zmenpos and Thinpsensnos	Ἁρπαῆσις Ζμενπτῶτος Θιψενσνῶτος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	10	Mesore	01	147 July 25 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316156
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 316156 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4559), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).