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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 905

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 905
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 () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt () [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 Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Exterior 3 l. Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small and unequal margins. The right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 67 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 67 x 32 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 Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 19th regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḥtr 1G. Mattha, Demotic Ostraka from the Collections at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Cairo 1945 (= O. Mattha), 168-169, pl. XX no. 218 reads Ḥwn. sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1 r sttr ½
2r ḥḏ qd 1 ꜥn n pꜣy=f ḥḏ n nḥb n ḥsb.t 19 n-ḏr.t Br
3sꜣ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 20.t ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 12

1 G. Mattha, Demotic Ostraka from the Collections at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Cairo 1945 (= O. Mattha), 168-169, pl. XX no. 218 reads Ḥwn.
convex
1Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, 1 silver kite, yields ½ stater,
2yields 1 silver kite again, (for) his yoke tax (for) the 19th regnal year. Issued by Belles,
3son of Stamnaichnoumis. 20th regnal year, 12th of Phaophi.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8315 man Hatres, son of Poeris Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 20 Phaophi 21 -266 December 9 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307328
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 43586
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307328 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 905), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.