Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1012
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1012 |
| 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 |
Wide line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a broad upper one.
The lower half remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
2 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
81 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
33 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
81 x 33 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| 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 |
Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Phatres, who is known from other sources as the son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil for the 16th regnal year, in an amount of ¼ kite. |
| 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 | | Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, ¼ silver (kite) |
2 | | (for) oil (for) the 16th regnal year, Payni. Issued by Phatres.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 6715 |
man |
Pachnoumis, son of Phibis |
Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
16 |
Payni |
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-231 July 13 BCE -231 August 11 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307330 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
49770 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307330 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1012), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
