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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4951

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4951
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Publication Status unpublished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 163 and 164
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 7+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 Valerios Serenos and another? supervisor of the Sacred Gate. and Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer, through the scribe Antonius Iulas, probably for geometria phoinikonos of year 4, paid in year 5 of Marc Aurel and Verus
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
1Οὐαλέριος Σερῆνος -?-
2καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτ(ηρηταὶ) -?- καὶ Οὔλ-
3πιος Κερεᾶλις μισθ(ωτὴς) -?- διὰ
4Ἀντωνίου Ιουλᾶ(τος). διέγρ(αψεν -?-
5ὑπὲρ ὀνόματος -?-
6 ̣ν̣ιω̣ -?-
7 ι̣ς̣ -?-
y – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Valerius Serenus ---
2and their associate supervisors --- and Ul-
3pius Cerealis tax farmer --- through
4Antonius Iulas. Has paid ---
5on account of ---
6---
7---
y – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
DAIK_4951innen_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12555 man Antonius Ioulas scribe Antonios Ioulas Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 05 163 CE 164 CE date according to tax collector's time of office and his scribe's term;

 

Pictures

DAIK_4951innen_S2_001
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DAIK_4951_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316242
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 316242 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4951), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).