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Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51500

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51500
Current Location magazine
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 Details _x001C_
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty:
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 and partly irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins and on top. The lower third remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pamenches, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the rate for the compulsory labor tax for the 30th regnal year, in an amount of 1/2 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

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Places (read out from edition)