Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1037

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1037
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. Text layout currently unknown, no photo published.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Peteesis, son of Psenchonsis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Esminis, son of Esminis, is confirmed by Peteesis, son of Psenchonsis, of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 15th regnal year, in an amount of 4 kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Ns-Mn sꜣ Ns-Mn ḥḏ qd 4 n ḥḏ
2	n nḥb n ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Ḫnsw ¹According to A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 453. G. Mattha, Demotic Ostraka from the Collections at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Cairo 1945 (= O. Mattha), 167, pl. XX no. 215 reads […]-ẖrt.
3	ḥsb.t 15 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 25 ²The previous editions read ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 24.

¹ According to A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 453. G. Mattha, Demotic Ostraka from the Collections at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Cairo 1945 (= O. Mattha), 167, pl. XX no. 215 reads […]-ẖrt.
² The previous editions read ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 24.

convex

1	Thus has brought Esminis, son of Esminis, 4 (silver) kite for the yoke
2	tax (for) the 15th regnal year. Issued by [Peteesis], [son of] [Psen]chonsis.
3	15th regnal year, 25th of Mesore.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7830	man	Esminis, son of Esminis	Ns-Mn sꜢ Ns-Mn	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	15	Mesore	25	-270 October 15 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307331
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	43576
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307331 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1037), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.