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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4590

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4590
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Publication Status unpublished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 94 and 95
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 5
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content receipt of practor Sokrates for cheironaxion of year 14 of Domitian, paid by Psais, son of Petorzmethis
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 Ψάε̣ις
2Π̣ετορζμῆθις ὑπὲρ χιρωναξίου τοῦ ιδ (ἔτους)
3Δομιτιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) κ (διώβολον). Σωκράτης
5πράκτωρ ἔγραψα.
convex
1Thus has paid Psais,
2son of Petorzmethis, for trade tax tax of year 14
3of Domitian the lord,
4silver dr. 20 ob. 2. Sokrates,
5tax collector, I have written.
DAIK_O4590_26801b_S1_0
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38775 man Psais, son of Petorzmethis (and Tisatis) Ψάεις Πετροσζμήθεως pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 14 94 CE 95 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4590_26801b_S1_0
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316182
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 316182 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4590), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).