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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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; |
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. |