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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4727

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4727
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Publication Status	unpublished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 121 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	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Didymion praktor, written by Palachemis the scribe, for poll tax and prison guards of year 5 of Hadrian, paid by Zmenpos, son of Harpaesis ---
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Διδυμίων πράκτωρ διὰ Παλαχήμιος. διέγραψε
2	Ζμετπῶς Ἁ̣ρ̣π̣ -ca. 7?- μ̣η̣τρὸς ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
3	ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ πέμπτου (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
4	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δεκαεξ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ Π̣αχω̣ -?-
5	ὁμοίως δραχμὴν μίαν (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσ(μοφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολόν).

convex

1	Didymion, tax collector. Thus has paid
2	Zmetpos, son of Harpaesis and the mother ---,
3	for poll tax of the fifth year of Hadrian
4	the lord, sixteen drachmas, = 16 dr., Pachon ---.
5	Ditto, one drachma 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4451	man	Didymion praktor	Διδυμίων	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	05	Pachons		121 April 26 CE 121 May 25 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316220
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 316220 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4727), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).