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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4724

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4724
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Publication Status unpublished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 41 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 8
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 Sarapion of the banker Apollonios, for date palms of the 4th year of Gaius, paid by Charmios?, through Senzmethis, tin year 5 of Gaius.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as tax payer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σαραπίων ὁ παρὰ ᾿Απολ(λωνίου)? τοῦ τρ(απεζίτου)
2διαγεγράφηκεν ὑπὲρ ἀκροδρύων δ̣ (ἔτους) Γαίου
3Καίσαρος Αὐτοκράτορος Σε̣β̣ασ-
4τοῦ Χά̣ρ̣μι̣ος διὰ Σενζμήθιος
5ἀργ̣υρίου δ̣ρ̣α̣χ̣(μὰς) τέσσαρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ. (ἔτους) ε
6Γαίου Καίσαρος Αὐτοκράτορος
7Σεβ̣α̣στο̣ῦ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
88 ̣̅ ̣
convex
1Sarapion, the clerk of Apollonios the banker.
2Has paid for date palms of year 4 of Gaius
3Caesar Imperator Augustus
4Charmios through Senzmethis
5silver drachmas four, = 4 dr. In year 5
6of Gaius Caesar Imperator
7Augustus, --- (month)
8?
DAIK_O4724up_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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) 05 Theogenios 41 January CE ;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4724up_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316217
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 316217 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4724), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata) .