Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 552
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Jerusalem, Museum of the Pontifical Biblical Institute |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 552 |
| Publication Number |
O. Varia 14, P.L. Bat. 26 14 |
| 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, brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
85 mm | 75 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 |
| Script, additional A |
Greek |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Language, additional A |
Greek, Ancient |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Narrow line pitch. The complete text was placed on the upper half of the pot sherd, without margins on top and at the sides. The lower half of the sherd remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
70 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
36 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
70 x 36 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt 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 |
Menesas and two unnamed persons (male/female) are confirmed by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the salt tax of the 32th regnal year in an amount of 1 kite, for the payment to the tax farmer Zephyrion. Greek subscription with repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency, by Petepiphis himself. |
| Relationship of Texts (bilingual) |
Greek subscription with repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Bilingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Activity of woman: tax payer
- Identifier of woman: none
- Identifier of woman: none (only mentioned as "woman") |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ı͗n Mnsꜣs s:ḥm.t 1 ḥwṱ 1
ḥḏ
qd 1 |
2 | |
n
ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
n
ḥsb.t 32
r
wṱ=f
n
Spwryn
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3 | | n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t
sꜣ
Pa-H̱nm n ḥsb.t 32 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw
25
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4 | | ἁλικῆς τοῦ (ἔτους) λβ (δραχμαὶ) β.
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1 | | Thus have brought Menesas, 1 female and 1 male: (an amount of money of) 1
kite |
2 | | (for) the salt tax (for) the 32nd regnal year, (in order) to pay it
to Zopyrion. |
3 | | Issued by Petepiphis, (son) of Pachnoumis, in the 32nd regnal
year, 25th of Phamenoth. |
4 | | For the salt tax of the 32nd year: 2 drachmas.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 6665 |
man |
Menesas |
MnsꜢs |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
32 |
Phamenoth |
25 |
-253 May 13 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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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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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. 14)
| DatasetID |
307181 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
3010 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307181 (= Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 552), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
