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Persons & Deities

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	ZPE 219, 2021, no. 3 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]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty: medium
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 121 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, cursive
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for monthly trade tax (cheironaxion meniaion)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Sokration, collector for monthly trade tax of Syene, paid by Petorzmethis, son of Harabro-?, in year 5 of Hadrian.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown
Religion, further	unknown

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1	Σωκρατίων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ πράκτορες χειροναξίου µηνιαίου Σοήνης. Διέγραψεν
2	Πετόρζµηθις Ἀραβρωότις ¹l. Ἀραβρωότιος ὑπὲρ χειροναξίου τὰς
3	λοιπὰς τὰ ἕως Μεσορη λ̅ τοῦ ε (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
4	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς τέσσαρες, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) δ.
5	Ἀµµώνιος ἔγραψα. Μεσορη ι̅ϛ̅.

¹ l. Ἀραβρωότιος

convex

1	Sokration and the other collectors for monthly trade tax of Syene. Has paid
2	Petorzmethis, son of Arabrootis, for trade tax the
3	remainder up to Mesore 30 of year 5 of Hadrian
4	Caesar the lord, drachmas four, = 4 dr.
5	Ammonios, I have written. Mesore 16.

OCairo 18955_16_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29900	man	Petorzmethis, son of Harabro-?	Πετορζμῆθις Ἁραβρο-?	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	05	Mesore	16	121 August 9 CE	date in text;

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OCairo 18955_16_S1_001

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Literature

Aly, Shereen A., Receipts of Various Taxes from Elephantine (2021). (149-156)

DatasetID	318408
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	382551
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318408 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR SR 18955 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.