Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 283
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 283 |
| 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) |
Complete. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Rather small line pitch.
The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, which small lateral margins. The upper right crotch as well as the lower half remain uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
54 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
26 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
54 x 26 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for police 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 |
Krates, son of Teos, is confirmed by Horos of having paid the police tax for the 4th regnal year, in an amount of 1/8+ 1/16 (deben). |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | pꜣ rse
n
ḥsb.t 4.t n-ḏr.t
H̱rd
sꜣ
Ḏd-ḥr
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2 | |
ḥḏ dbn
⅛ 1/16 ḥsb.t 5.t ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 19 n-ḏr.t Ḥr
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3 | | ḥnꜥ nꜣy=f ı͗r.w
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1 | | The police tax (for) the 4th regnal year, through Krates, (son) of Teos: |
2 | | ⅛ 1/16 (silver deben). 5th regnal year, 19th of Thoth. Issued by Horos, |
3 | | together with his colleagues
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7795 |
man |
Krates, son of Teos |
H̱rd sꜢ Ḏd-Ḥr |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Tiberius |
05 |
Thoth |
19 |
18 September 16 CE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307324 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
49783 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307324 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 283), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
