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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4642

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4642
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Publication Status unpublished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 37 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for date palms (akrodrya)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the bank clerk Herakleides of the banker Apollonios, for date palms of the 1st year of Gaius, paid by ---, son of Pachnoubis, through ---, in year 2 of Gaius.
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
1Ἡρακλείδης ὁ παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ τρ(απεζίτου). διαγ(εγράφηκεν) ὑπὲρ
2ἀκροδρύων α (ἔτους) Γαίου Καίσαρος
3Σεβαστοῦ ὀνόμ(ατος) -?-
4Παχνούβεως διὰ -?-
5ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δέκα, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ι. (ἔτους) β Γαίου
6Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς
7Σ̣ -?-
convex
1Herakleides, clerk of Apollonios the banker. Has paid for
2date palms of year 1 of Gaius Caesar
3Augustus on account of ---
4son of Pachnoubis, through ---
5silver drachmas 10, = 10 dr. In year 2 of Gaius
6Caesar Augustus in the month
7S---
DAIK_O4642_2010-04-24_
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12405 man Apollonios banker (rom. I) Apol(lonios) banker Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Gaius (Caligula) 02 37 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4642_2010-04-24_
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316209
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 316209 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4642), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).