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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4770

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4770
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Publication Status	unpublished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 177 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at 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 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 survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Serenos scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves written the assistant Serenus in year 17 of Marc Aurel
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

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1	ιζ (ἔτους) Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
2	Τῦβι κ̅ε̅. διέγραψεν Θ ̣ -?- ὑπ(ὲρ) γεωμετ(ρίας) φοινεικ(ῶνος)
3	γενήματος ιϛ (ἔτους) ὀνόματος -?-
4	(δραχμὰς) γ̅ καὶ ὀνόματ(ος) -?-
5	νουβ̣ ̣ ̣ -?-
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	In year 17 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord,
2	Tybi 25. Thus has paid Th--- for the survey tax of date palm
3	of the harvest of year 16, on account of ---
4	drachmas 3, and on account of ---
5	noub---
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

DAIK_O4770_S1_001

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius	17	Tybi	25	117 January 20 CE	date in text;

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DAIK_O4770_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316232
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 316232 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4770), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata) .