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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4913

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4913
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Publication Status unpublished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 178 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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
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 the supervisor (epiteretes) Dionysios and his associates through the assistant Minucius Niger for survey tax on palm groves, paid by Pachnoubis--- on account of the stone mason Pachnoubis in year 18 of Marc Aurel
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Διονύσιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιτηρηταὶ ̣[ ? ἱερᾶς]
2πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Μινουκίου Νίγερος
3βο̣η̣θ̣οῦ. διέγραψεν Παχνοῦβις -?-
4ὑπὲρ γ̣ε̣ομετρίας φοινικῶνος γενήματος ιζ̣ (ἔτους) ὀνό(ματος) Πα-
5χνούβιος // 1// l. Παχνούβιος λαξὸς δραχμὴν μίαν πεντώβ(ολον)
6(γίνονται) (δραχμὴν) α ????. (ἔτους) ιη // Φαμ̣ενὼθ ?
7 Μινούκιος Νίγερ -?-

1 // l. Παχνούβιος
convex
1Dionysios and his associate supervisors of the Sacred
2Gate of Syene, through Minucius Niger,
3assistant. Thus has paid Pachnoubis, son of ?,
4for the survey tax of palm groves for the harvest of year 17, on account of
5Pachnoubis, son of Pachnoubis, stone mason, one drachma five obols,
6= 1 dr. 5 ob. In year 18, on Phamenoth ?.
7(hd. 2) Minucius Niger ---
DAIK_O4913_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42560 man Dionysios epiteretes (Commodus) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Commodus 18 Phamenoth 178 February 25 CE 178 March 26 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4913_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316244
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 316244 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4913), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).