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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2964

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2964
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Publication Status unpublished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

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 and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for unknown tax
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Longinus Serenus and Petronius Bassianus, collector for money taxes at Elephantine, for unknown tax of year 6
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Λονγῖνος Σερ(ῆνος) καὶ Πετρώ(νιος) Βασσιανὸς πράκ() ἀργ(υρικῶν) Ἐλεφ(αντίνης).
2διέ̣γραψεν Ψεν̣ -?-
3 -?- ϛ̣ (ἔτους) -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Longinus Serenus and Petronius Bassianus, collectors of money taxes at Elephantine.
2Thus has paid Psen---
3--- of year 6 ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
O2964_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4462 man Longinus Serenus Σερῆνος Latin

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 06 165 CE 166 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

O2964_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318261
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 318261 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 2964 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .