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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4938

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4938
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Publication Status unpublished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 156 and 157
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left 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 and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the tax farmer Stlaccius through Serenus the younger, for trade tax of year 19 of Antoninus, paid in year 20 of Antoninus.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Στλάκκιος μισθωτὴς ἱερᾶς πύλης
2Σοή(νης) διὰ Σερή(νου) νεωτέρου. διέγραψεν
3Παναπῶτι?ς̣ Κ̣αλασίρεως
4μητ(ρὸς) Θινουαλερία?ς ὑ̣π̣ὲρ χειρωναξίου ιθ (ἔτους)
5 -?- ̣ ̣ ̣
6 -?-
y – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Stlaccius, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate
2of Syene, through Serenus the younger. Thus has paid
3Panapotis?, son of Kalasiris
4and the mother of Thinvaleria, for trade tax of year 19
5---
6---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O4938_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42570 man Panapotis, son of Kalasiris and Thinvaleris pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 20 155 CE 156 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4938_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316238
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 316238 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4938), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).