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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. 6 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 122 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	small fragment at upper right corner broken off

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	small fragment at upper right corner broken off
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Palachemis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakitikon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Sempronius Celer through Palachemis for for poll tax and prison guards of year 6 of Hadrian, paid by Harpaesis alias Loxos, son of Harpaesis and Tanouris.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 4 name: tou kai Loxos
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

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Translation

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1	Σ̣ενπρώνιος Κέλερ καὶ οἱ
2	σ̣ὺν αὐτῷ διὰ Παλαχήμιος. διέ-
3	γραψ̣εν Ἁρπαῆσις Ἁρπαήσεω̣ς
4	τ̣οῦ καὶ Λόξος ¹ed. Μαιεόριςμητρὸς Τανοῦρις
5	ὑ̣π̣ερ λαογραφίας τοῦ ἕκτου (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς
7	ὀ̣κ̣τώ, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η, Μεσορὴ θ. Θὼθ
8	ιζ, δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσμοφυλάκων (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η (ὀβολός).

¹ ed. Μαιεόρις

convex

1	Sempronius Celer and his
2	associate partners, through Palachemis. Thus has
3	paid Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis
4	alias Loxos, and the mother Tanouris,
5	for poll tax of the sixth year of Hadrian
6	Caesar the lord, drachmas
7	eight, = 8 dr, Mesore 9. On Thoth
8	17, drachmas eight 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 8 dr. 1 ob.

Cairo-18955-66_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24185	man	Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis, alias Loxis, and Tanouris	Ἁρπάησις Ἁρπαήσιος ὁ καὶ Λοξις	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	06	Mesore	09	122 August 2 CE	date in text;

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Cairo-18955-66_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Nine Greek Ostraca from the Egyptian Museum (2017). (no. 6)

DatasetID	316523
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 316523 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.