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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4937

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4937
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Publication Status unpublished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 55 and 70
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 4+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
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Rufonius Antigonos (collector) for survey tax on date groves of year 1, paid in year 2 of Nero or Vespasian, by Tisatis, daughter of Patrasnouphis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as tax payer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ῥουφώνιος Ἀντίγονος. διαγεγρ̣(άφηκεν)
2Τισᾶτις Πατρασνούφεως ὑπ(ὲρ) γεομ(ετρίας)
3φοινικώνος α (ἔτους) δραχμ(ὰς) -?-
4ὀβολοὺς -?-
y – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Rufonius Antigonos. Has paid
2Tisatis, daughter of Patrasnouphis, for the survey tax
3of palm groves of year 1 drachmas ---
4obols ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_O4937_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4435 man Rufonius Antigonos Ῥουφώνιος Ἀντίγονος Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nero 02 55 CE 56 CE date in text, ruler incertain;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4937_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316240
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 316240 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4937), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).