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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4606

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4606
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Publication Status unpublished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 113 and 114
Criteria for Dating date in t
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and bottom

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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for unknown tax of yeaar 16 of Trajan, paid by Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and Sentithoes (archive). The scribe might be the same as in P.Bingen 85 (O.Eleph. inv. 2576)
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

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψεν
2Ζμενπῶς Ἁρπαήσεως μη(τρὸς) Σεν-
3τιθοήους ὑ̣πὲρ χειρωναξίο(υ)?
4τοῦ ις̣ (ἔτους) Τραιανο(ῦ) τοῦ κυρίου
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Has paid
2Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and the mother Sen-
3tithoes, for trade tax
4of year 16 of Trajan the lord
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O4606b_2010-04-24
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DAIK_O4606a_4607_4608_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15340 man Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis and Sentithoes Ζμετπως Ἁρπαήσεως Σεντιθοήους Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 17 113 CE 114 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4606b_2010-04-24
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_O4606a_4607_4608_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316195
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 316195 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4606), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).