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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4768

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4768
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Publication Status unpublished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 153 and 158
Criteria for Dating date according to content: payments of one fifth of laographia of year 16 of Antoninus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, right and bottom

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 left, right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
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 | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax of year 16 of Antoninus, paid in installments. dating from y 17 to 21 fragment
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
1 -?- ̣πρ̣ ̣ ̣- μισ̣θ̣ωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλ̣ης Σοή(νης)
2 -?- απωτις̣ Νͅεμων -?-
3 -?- ̣ λαογραφίας ις (ἔτους) δραχμὰς δύο
4τετρώβολ̣ον, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) β (τετρώβολον) -?-
5 -?- ̣ ̣ -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1---, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene
2--- -apotis, son of Nemon---
3--- for poll tax of year 16, two drachmas
4two obols, = 2 dr. 2 ob. ---
5---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O4768_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12570 man Ammonios I scribe Αμμωνιος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 153 CE 158 CE date according to content: payments of one fifth of laographia of year 16 of Antoninus;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4768_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316231
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 316231 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4768), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).