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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 |
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 Type | ostracon |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for yoke tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8315 | man | Hatres, son of Poeris | Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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; |
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. |