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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4565

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4565
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Publication Status unpublished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 139 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top

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
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) and poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion) of year 2 of Antoninus and poll tax and trade tax of year 20 of Hadrian in installments, written by the assistant Pachompsachis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1 -?- τοῦ̣ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς
x+2εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον). ὁ αὐτὸς
x+3ὑπ(ὲρ) λ̣αογραφίας κ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) γ (τριώβολον), χειρωναξίου (δραχμὰς) δ (ἡμιωβέλιον).
x+4(ἔτους) β Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
x+5τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ
χῤ6κ̣̅ε̅.
convex
x– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1--- the lord, brutto, drachmas
x+2twenty obols two, = 20 dr. 2 ob. The same
x+3for poll tax of year 20 drachmas 3 ob. 3, for trade tax drachmas 4 ob. 1/2.
x+4In year 2 of Antoninus Caesar
x+5the lord, Mesore
x+625.
DAIK_O4565_26801a_S1_0
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 02 Mesore 25 139 August 18 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4565_26801a_S1_0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316161
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 316161 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4565), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).