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Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 550

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Jerusalem, Museum of the Pontifical Biblical Institute
Inventory Number Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 550
Publication Number O. Varia 10, P.L. Bat. 26 10
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:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 55 mm | 100 mm | 11 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 text was placed only on the upper half of the landscape format potsherd, with very small margins at the beginnings and endings of the lines. The last line with the coutersignature was placed left of the short line 3, with very small distance and on nearly the same hight, so that it is numbered 3a-3b here.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 78 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content The especially as a "greek woman" classified Tachnoumis is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil of the 31th regnal year in an amount of 2 obols each for the months Mecheir and Phamenoth. Countersigned by Osoroeris, son of Horos.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism Woman classified as "Greek Woman"
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer, - Identifier of woman: "greek woman"

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-H̱nm tꜣ wynn ḏbꜥ.t 4 wp-s.t ı͗bd 2 pr.t
2ḏbꜥ.t 2.t ı͗bd 3 pr.t ḏbꜥ.t 2.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ ḥsb.t 31
3aı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 20
3bsẖ Wsı͗r-wr sꜣ Ḥr
convex
1Thus has brought Tachnoumis, the Greek woman, 4 obols. Their specification: Mecheir
22 obols. Phamenoth 2 obols. Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes. 31st regnal year,
3a20th of Pharmouthi.
3bCountersigned by Osoroeris, son of Horos.
PBI_550_S1_001
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PBI_550_S2_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6655 man Osoroeris, son of Horos Wsỉr-wr sꜢ Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 31 Pharmuthi 20 -254 June 8 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

PBI_550_S1_001
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PBI_550_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307179
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 3005
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307179 (= Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 550), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.