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Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1031

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1031
Publication Number O. Varia 31
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Sayce, Archibald Henry
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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1933 and 1933
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Sayce, Archibald Henry
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 97 mm | 60 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, some signs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the pot sherd. All lines are flush left. At top and bottom the margins are a bit broader.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 62 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 62 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for fruit tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Apollon, son of Kallikles, is confirmed by Pais of having paid the fruit tax of the 26th regnal year of Ptolemaios III. in an amount of ½ kite. Below the same, for the 2nd regnal year of Ptolemaios IV.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ꜣpwln sꜣ Glygrs
2ḥḏ qd ½ n ḥḏ tgy n ḥsb.t 26 1This is of Ptolemaios III. n-ḏr.t Pa-ḥy
3n ḥsb.t 2.t ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12 2This is of Ptolemaios IV.
4ꜣpwln ḥḏ qd ½ n ḥḏ tgy
5n ḥsb.t 2.t n-ḏr.t Pa-ḥy
6ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12

1 This is of Ptolemaios III.
2 This is of Ptolemaios IV.
convex
1Apollon, son of Kallikles:
2½ silver kite for the fruit tax of the 26th regnal year. Issued by Pais
3in the 2nd regnal year, 12th of Mesore.
4Apollon: ½ silver kite for the fruit [tax]
5of the 2nd regnal year. Issued by Pais,
612th of Mesore.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6690 man Apollon, son of Kallikles Ꜣpwln sꜢ Glygr˹s˺ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator 02 Mesore 12 -220 September 23 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307184
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 3027
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307184 (= Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1031), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.