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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for the price of oil |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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" |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
6655 | man | Osoroeris, son of Horos | Wsỉr-wr sꜢ Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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; |
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. |