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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 2799

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 2799
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Publication Status	unpublished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 -90 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, hand unknown Greek
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for date palms (akrodrya)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios (Trapezit)
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the bank of Syene for akrodrya, issued by the banker Ammonios, paid by Aniketos, son of Dionysios, for land formerly owned by Hermon
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4005	man	Ammonios (Trapezit)	Ἀμμώνιος = Ἀμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios X Alexander I	24	Pharmuthi		-90 April 13 BCE -90 May 13 BCE	date in text;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318413
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek);
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318413 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 2799), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek);.