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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4589

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4589
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Publication Status unpublished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 92 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 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for custom duties
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Iunius Mousaios and his associate tax farmers of the 2%-tax (pentekoste, customs) of the harbour of Syene, for the import fee for 2500 empty jars in year 11 of Domitian, paid by Sarapion, son of Sarapion.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἰούνιος Μουσαῖος καὶ μ̣έ̣τ̣οχ(οι) τέ-
2λους πεντηκοστῆς λειμέ-
3νος Σοήνης Σαραπίων̣ι̣
4Σαραπίωνος χα(ίρειν). ἀπέ-
5χωμεν παρὰ σοῦ τε
6τ̣έ̣λος οὗ ἐξήγ(αγες)
7κούφ(ων) λαγ(ύνων) ψ ἔτους
8ἑνδεκάτου Δομιτιανοῦ
9τοῦ κυρίου Ἐπειφ
10κ̣̅α̣̅. ψ.
convex
1Iunius Musaius and his partners, tax farmers
2of the 2%-tax of the harbour
3of Syene, to Sarapion,
4son of Sarapion, greeting. We have
5received from you the
6tax for the goods you have exported,
7empty jars 700, in the
8eleventh year of Domitian
9the lord, Epeiph
1021. 700.
DAIK_O4589_26801b_S1_0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
21745 man Iunius Musaeus, Iounios Mousaios, telones Ιὀύνιος Μουσαιος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 11 Epeiph 21 92 July 15 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4589_26801b_S1_0
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316181
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 316181 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4589), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).