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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4760

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4760
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Publication Status	unpublished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 118 and 121
Criteria for Dating	date according to tax collector's time of office
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	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Valerion and his associate tax farmers (misthotai) through the scribe Sarapion for laographia and desmophylakon
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	Ο̣ὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ λοιπ(οὶ) μισθ(ωταὶ)
2	ἱε̣ρ̣ᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης
3	δι(ὰ) Σαραπίωνος γρ(αμματέως).
4	διέγραψ̣(εν) -? - -
5	χεως μ̣ητ(ρὸς) ΝΝ λαο(γραφίας) ? (ἔτους)
6	Ἁδριαν̣οῦ Καίσαρος
7	τοῦ κυρίου δραχ(μὰς) δέκα
8	ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον), δε̣σμο(φυλακίας) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολόν),
9	Ἐπει[φ -?-]

convex

1	Valerion and the other tax farmers
2	of the Sacred gate of Syene,
3	through Sarapion, scribe.
4	Thus has paid --- , son of ---
5	chis and the mother ---, for poll tax of year ?
6	of Hadrian Caesar
7	the lord, drachmas seven-
8	teen 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.,
9	Epeiph ---.

DAIK_O4760_S1_001

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4246	man	Sarapion scribe 1	Σαραπίων	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian		Epeiph		118 CE 121 CE	date according to tax collector's time of office;

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DAIK_O4760_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316226
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 316226 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4760), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).