Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4612

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4612
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

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 Type	ostracon
Dating	between 159 and 160
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right and bottom

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	7+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Serenos, for unknown tax of year 23? of Antoninus, paid by Petenenteris, son of Sansnos and Thinpetorzmethis, for completion of the yearly payment
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

Transcription

Translation

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1	Οὔλπιος Κελεάριος μισ̣θ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς
2	πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σερήνου βοη̣θ(οῦ). διέγ(ραψεν)
3	Πετενεντῆρις Σ̣ανσνῶτος?
4	μητρὸς Θινπετορζμήθιος εἰς
5	συνπλήρωσ̣ιν -?- δραχ(μὰς) -?-
6	̣ ̣ ̣ς πεντ̣ -?-
7	Ἀντω̣νίν̣ου -?-
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred
2	Gate of Syene, through the assistant Serenus. Thus has paid
3	Petenenteris, son of Sansnos
4	and the mother Thinpetorzmethis, to
5	complete (the tax x for year ?) drachmas ---
6	--- five? ---
7	of Antoninus ---
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42205	man	Petenenteris, son of Psansnos and Senpetorzmethis		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	23			159 CE 160 CE	date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316201
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 316201 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4612), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata) .