Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4556

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4556
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	All line endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd, without lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	50	0
Column Height (in mm)	30	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	50+y x 30	0

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Petosorsmetis, son of [///], is confirmed by Petosorsmetis of having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 6th regnal year, in an amount of 4 stater.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	r.wṱ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ n ꜥpe
2	n ḥsb.t 5 n Nrn Glwts Gysrs
3	Sbsts Grmnqs ꜣwtgrṱr
4	sttr 4.t n-ḏ.rt Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣ-ḥw.ṱ

1	That which was paid cash by Petosors[metis for the poll tax]
2	in the 5th regnal year of Nero Cl[audius Caesar]
3	Augustus Germanicus [imperator]:
4	4 stater. Issued by Petosors[metis, son of Petephaus.]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7680	man	Imperator 05 Nero: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus	NꜢrwn Glwṱys Gsyrs/Kysrs Sbst Grmnqs; Νέρωνος Καίσαρος	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nero	05			58 CE 59 CE	internal dating, with name of the ruler;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318058
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318058 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4556), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.