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Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 545

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Jerusalem, Museum of the Pontifical Biblical Institute
Inventory Number Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 545
Publication Number O. Varia 4, P.L. Bat. 26 4
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, dark brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 75 mm | 12 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
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, some signs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The complete text covers nearly the entire surface of the sherd, with small, equable margins at the top and on the sides, as well as a somewhat broader margin at the bottom.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 45 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 75 x 45 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Petesouchos, son of Sochotes, is confirmed by Pasenis, son of Eschnoumis of having paid the yoke tax of the 3rd regnal year in an amount of 2 kite, to complete the required full payment of 6 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Sbk sꜣ Sbk-ḥtp
2ḥḏ qd 2 n ḥḏ nḥby n ḥsb.t 3.t r
3mḥ ḥḏ 1In S. P. Vleeming, Ostraka Varia. Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, Chiefly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, from Various Collections, Leiden / New York / Köln 1994 (P. L. Bat. 26), no. 4, there is given (ḥḏ), but the sign is written according to note (c) in an abbreviated manner. qd 6 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-sny sꜣ Ns-H̱nm
4ḥsb.t 4.t ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 9 11

1 In S. P. Vleeming, Ostraka Varia. Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, Chiefly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, from Various Collections, Leiden / New York / Köln 1994 (P. L. Bat. 26), no. 4, there is given (ḥḏ), but the sign is written according to note (c) in an abbreviated manner.
convex
1Thus has brought Petesouchos, son of Sochotes,
2an amount of money of 2 kite for the yoke tax for the 3rd regnal year, to
3complete the amount of money of 6 kite. Issued by Pasenis, (son) of Eschnoumis.
44th regnal year, {9th} 11th of Tybi.
PBI_545_S1_001
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PBI_545_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6620 man Petesouchos, son of Sochotes PꜢ-ḏỉ-Sbk sꜢ Sbk-ḥtp pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 04 Tybi 11 -281 March 7 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

PBI_545_S1_001
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PBI_545_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307172
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 2999
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307172 (= Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 545), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.