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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3760

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3760
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Publication Status unpublished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
Dating between 146 and 148
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and bottom

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 6+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 Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Soene through Pachompsachis, assistant, for unknown tax.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ζήνων Ἡρακλείδου μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς
2πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Παχομψα-
3χις βοηθ(οῦ). διέγρα(ψεν) -?-
4ζμη̣ -?- μητ(ρὸς)
5Τισ̣ατις? ὑπ(ὲρ) -?-
6δ -?-
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred
2Gate of Syene, through Pachompsa-
3chis, assistant. Thus has paid ---
4zmethis, son of --- and the mother
5Tisatis(?), for ---
6---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
O3760_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12740 man Pachompsachis scribe Παχομψᾶχις boethos Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 146 CE 148 CE date according to the collector's time of office;

 

Pictures

O3760_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318263
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 318263 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 3760 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .