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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4843

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4843
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Publication Status	unpublished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 120 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
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 upper right corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion, scribe of Sanmus praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats of year 5 of Hadrian, paid by Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis and Tesauris, written by the scribe Sarapion.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

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Translation

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convex

1	Σανμοῦς πράκτωρ. διέγρ(αψεν)
2	Βίηγχις Πετορζμήθ(εως)
3	μητρὸς Τ̣εσαῦρις ὑπὲρ μερι̣σμ(οῦ) πο-
4	ταμοφυλάκιδος ε (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
5	τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς (δραχμὰς) β (τετρώβολον).
6	Σαραπίων γραμματεὺς ἔγραψα, Χοιακ ι̅γ̅.

convex

1	Sanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid
2	Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis
3	and the mother Tesayris, for the contribution of river
4	police boats of year 5 of Hadrian
5	the lord, brutto, 2 dr. 4 ob.
6	Sarapion, scribe, I have written, Choiak 13.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38940	man	Bienchis, son of Petorzmethis and Tesauris	Βίηγχις Πετορζμήθ(εως) μητρὸς Τ̣εσαῦρις	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	05	Choiak	13	120 December 9 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	316234
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 316234 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4843), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).