Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4605

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_316194.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4605
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Publication Status unpublished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 87 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and right

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 and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for survey tax on palm groves written by the cheiristes Antistianos in year 7 or Domitian
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 ̣ -?-
2ζ̣̣ -?-
3και ̣ -?-
4ὑπὲρ γεωμετρίας φοινικ(ῶνος) ἕκτου
5ἔ̣τους και π̣έμπτου? ἔτους Δομιτιανοῦ
6Καίσαρος τοῦ κ̣υρίου -?-
7ὑ̣π̣ὲ̣ρ̣ τοῦ Παλαχη̣ -?- δραχ(μὰς)
8τ̣έ̣σ̣σαρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
9(ἔτους) ζ Δομιτιανοῦ Καίσαρος
10τοῦ κυρίου Θωθ ιη ̅.
convex
1---
2---
3and ---
4for the survey tax of palm groves of the sixth
5year and the fifth? year of Domitian
6Caesar the lord ---
7for Palache--- drachmas
8four, = 4 dr.
9In year 7 of Domitian Caesar
10the lord, Thoth 18.
DAIK_O4605b_2010-04-24
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_O4605a_26801f_S1_
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Domitian 07 Thoth 18 87 September 16 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4605b_2010-04-24
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_O4605a_26801f_S1_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316194
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 316194 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4605), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).