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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4722

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4722
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Publication Status unpublished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 80 and
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 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content receipt of praktor Sokrates for laographia of year 2 of Titus, paid by Psenmonthes, son of Psenmonthes, with signature of Sokrates.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1διέγραψε̣ν̣ Ψεναμώνθης
2Ψεναμών̣θου ὑπὲρ
3λαογραφίας δευτέρου
4(ἔτους) Τίτου Καίσαρος τοῦ
5κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ̅
6ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) δεκαέξ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ.
7Σωκράτης.
convex
1Thus has paid Psenamonthes,
2son of Psenamonthes, for
3poll tax of the second
4year of Titus Caesar the
5lord, Mesore 30,
6silver drachmas sixteen, = 16 dr.
7Sokrates.
DAIK_O4722_ELE-45-PW-0
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38935 man Psenamonthes, son of Psenamonthes Ψεναμώνθης pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Titus 02 Mesore 30 80 August 23 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4722_ELE-45-PW-0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316215
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 316215 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4722), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata) .