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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955
Publication Number	APF 63, 2017, Nr. 5 Aly
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Publication Status	published

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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 120 and 121
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top and left

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 top and left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion, scribe of Sanmous
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion, scribe of Sanmus praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats, paid by NN, son of Zmenpos and the mother ---, in year 5 of Hadrian; 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

0	Σανμοῦς πράκ(τωρ). διέγρ(αψεν)
1	NN Ζ̣μεντπὼτος
2	μητ(ρὸς) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμοῦ
3	ποταμοφυλ(ακίδος) ε̣ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
4	τοῦ κυρίου ἀργ(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) β (τετρώβολον). Σαραπίων
5	γρ(αμματεὺς) ἔγρ(αψα). (month) ι̅η̅.

convex

0	Sanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid
1	---, son of Zmentpos
2	and the mother ---, for the contribution
3	of river police boats of year 5 of Hadrian
4	the lord, 2 silver dr. 4 ob. Sarapion,
5	scribe, I have written. (month) 18.

Cairo-18955-65_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28820	man	NN, son of Zmenpos and ---		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	05		18	120 CE 121 CE	date in text;

Pictures

Cairo-18955-65_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Nine Greek Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum (2017). (no. 5)

DatasetID	316522
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316522 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.