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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for fruit tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 This is of Ptolemaios III. 2 This is of Ptolemaios IV. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
6690 | man | Apollon, son of Kallikles | Ꜣpwln sꜢ Glygr˹s˺ | Greek, Ancient |
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; |
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. |