Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955

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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]

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 left
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Palachemis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for the survey tax on palm groves written and signed by Palachemis, paid by Harpaesis, son of Patramsnouphis. The tax collector is not mentioned.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1-2 name, Reiter APE 63, 302-303 l. 5 date corrected: year 9 is wrongly written for year 10, since geometria-receipts are always paid in the year following the harvest-year.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	διέγρα̣ψε Ἁρπαῆσις Πατραμ- ¹ed. Παν̣α̣μ̣(έως)
2	σνού̣φεως ²corr. Reiter, ed. [Φανώ]φε(ως) ὑπὲρ γεομετρίας φοινικῶνος γενήματος ὀγδόου (ἔτους)
3	Ἁδ̣ριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
4	δ̣ραχμὰς ἐννέα (τριώβολον) (δίχαλκον) (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) θ (τριώβολον) (δίχαλκον).
5	(ἔτους) θ ³l. ι! Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
6	Χοιὰκ κ̅α̣̅. Παλαχῆμις σεσημείωμαι.

¹ ed. Παν̣α̣μ̣(έως)
² corr. Reiter, ed. [Φανώ]φε(ως)
³ l. ι!

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1	Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Patram-
2	snouphis, for the survey tax on palm groves of the harvest of the eighth year
3	of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
4	nine drachmas 3 ob. 2 ch., = 9 dr. 3 ob. 2 ch.
5	Year 9 (lege: y. 10!) of Hadrian Caesar the lord,
6	Choiak 21. Palachemis, I have signed.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29845	man	Harpaesis, son of Patramsnouphis	Ἁρπαῆσις Πατραμ-σνού̣φεως	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	10	Choiak	21	125 December 24 CE	date in text. date corrected: year 9 is wrongly written for year 10, since geometria-receipts are always paid in the year following the harvest-year.;

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DatasetID	316524
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 316524 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.