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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 785

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 785
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])
Comments on Object Palimpsest. Traces of an anterior Demotic text above the new text and in the lower part of the surface of the potsherd.

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 Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a large upper one (containing remains of an anterior, wiped out inscription in Demotic). The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 87 0
Column Height (in mm) 29 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 87 x 29 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 16th regnal year in an amount of 2 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ḥḏ qd 2 ẖn nꜣy=f ḥḏ
2 n nḥbꜣ n ḥsb.t 16 n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
3n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 21
convex
1Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 2 silver kite for his
2yoke tax for the 16th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,
3in the 16th regnal year, 21st of Pachons.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.7
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.7
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7070 man Imouthes, son of Pasenis Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 16 Pachons 21 -269 July 16 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.7
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.7
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307326
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 43577
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307326 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 785 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.