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Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 543

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Jerusalem, Museum of the Pontifical Biblical Institute
Inventory Number Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 543
Publication Number O. Varia 2, P.L. Bat. 26 2
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
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 archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Mallon, Alexis SJ
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Mallon, Alexis SJ
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 80 mm | 90 mm | 17 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete. "The outside covered with the flaked off residues of an unidentified substance." (according to Vleeming, O.Varia 2)
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete, sone signs in lines 1 - 2 are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text beginns with a slight spacing towards the right rim. On the top, there is a wider margin. The whole text was placed on the upper two-third of the surface, while the empty space is blocked with the distended last sign.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 66 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 66 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Receipt concerning compulsory labor tax. Espmetis, son of Psenamunis, is confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax of the 37th regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Seharptos, son of Imouthes.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-pꜣ-mty sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn ḥḏ qd 1
2n ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 37 n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ
3sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ 1For the name Šsbṱ cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 226. For the father’s name, F. Hoffmann suggests as an alternative reading Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wn-nfr, cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 245. r- ḫrw Ṯꜣy-Ḥr-pꜣ-tꜣ sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp
4n ḥsb.t 37 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 21

1 For the name Šsbṱ cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 226. For the father’s name, F. Hoffmann suggests as an alternative reading Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wn-nfr, cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 245.
convex
1Thus has brought Espmetis, son of Psenamunis, an amount of money of 1 kite
2for the compulsory labor tax for the 37th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet,
3son of Pouoptis. On declaration of Seharptos, son of Imouthes,
4in the 37th regnal year, 21st of Mesore.
PBI_543_S1_001
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PBI_543_S2_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6600 man Espmetis, son of Psenamounis Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ PꜢ-šr-Ỉmn pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 37 Mesore 21 -248 October 5 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

PBI_543_S1_001
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PBI_543_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307165
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 2997
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307165 (= Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 543), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.