Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32053
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, Petrie Museum, University College |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32053 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| 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 |
find (unspecified)
Certainty: |
| 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 |
(unknown) |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Edwards, Amelia
Certainty: medium |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, light brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
60 mm | 65 mm | 10 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. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Rather wide line pitch.
The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with differing but slight distance between the rim and the text lines at the sides. At the bottom, there is s small margin uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
67 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
43 |
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| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
67 x 43 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for yoke tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Teos, son of Harmachis, is confirmed by Peteesis, son of Psenchonis, of having paid the yoke tax of the 15th regnal year in an amount of money of 2 kite |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Thus has brought Teos, son of Harmachis, 2 (silver) kite
for the yoke |
2 | | tax (of) the 15th regnal year. Issued by Peteesis, |
3 | | son of Psenchonis. 15th regnal year, 19th of Payni.
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| London_UC_32053_S1_001 |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 9940 |
man |
Teos, son of Harmais |
Ḏd-ḥr sꜢ Ḥr-m-ḥb |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
15 |
Payni |
19 |
-270 August 10 BCE |
Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
Pictures
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Literature
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den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (245)
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Nur el-Din, Mohamede Abd el-Halim, Some Demotic Ostraca from the Petrie Museum, University College London (1987). (44-45, pl. 6.)
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Vleeming, Sven P., Ostraka Varia: Tax receipts and legal documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, chiefly of the early Ptolemaic period, from various collections (1994). (no. 6)
| DatasetID |
307174 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
3001 |
| Author |
Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307174 (= Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32053), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
