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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1238

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1238
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color unknown
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) Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium and partly unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small and equal margins on all sides. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 53 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 78 x53 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 17th regnal year, in an amount of 1 1/2 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Belles, son of Pa-ir-dit.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḥtr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1½
2n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t
3Wrš-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm r-ḫrw Bl
4sꜣ Pa-ı͗r-ḏı͗.t n ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t(?)
5sw 25
convex
1Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, 1½ silver kite
2for the nḥṱ.t tax (for) the 17th regnal year. Issued by
3Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis. On declaration of Belles,
4son of Pa-ir-dit, in the 18th regnal year, 25th of
5Hathyr(?).
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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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
7780 man Belles, son of Pa-ir-dit Bl sꜢ Pa-ỉr-ḏỉ.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 18 Hathyr 25(?) -267 January 17 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 307321
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 43587
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307321 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1238), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.