Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1112
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1112 |
| 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) |
(unknown)
Certainty: high |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
75 mm | 104 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) |
The end of line 2 as well as line 3 are faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Narrow line pitch.
The text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with broad and equal margins on all sides. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
42 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
26 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
42 x 26 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| 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 |
Herieus and Tachnonis are confirmed by ⸢..?.⸣. of having paid the price of oil for a not mentioned regnal year, Mesore, in an amount of 1/4 kite. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Activity of woman: tax payer
- Identifier of woman: none (mentioned with ırm together with a man)
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Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ı͗n
Hry=w ı͗rm Ta-Ḫnsw ḥḏ
qd
¼
n
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2 | | swn
n
nḥḥ n ı͗bd 4 šmw n-ḏr.t
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3 | | ı͗bd
1 ꜣḫ.t sw ꜥrqı͗
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1 | | Thus have brought Herieus and Tachonsis ¼ silver (kite) (for) |
2 | | the value (for) oil for Mesore. Issued by [///] |
3 | | 30th of Thoth.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7770 |
man |
Herieus (Bodl. 1112) |
Hrỉ=w (Bodl. 1112) |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) |
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Thoth |
30 |
-332 BCE -222 BCE |
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Pictures
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307320 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
43651 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307320 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1112), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
