Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51501
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51501 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| 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: |
| 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 |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
The upper left part ist lot today. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
convex (outside) |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
The endings of the first two demotic lines are lost today. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The Demotic text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a broader one on top. The lower half was only filled with one centered line of Greek. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for servant tax |
| 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 |
Pelaias is confirmed by Psenthotes of having paid the rate for the servant tax for the 3rd regnal year, in an amount of 3,25 obols. Greek subscription with mentioning of the Egyptian payer's name in Greek phonetic transliteration, and amount in Greek currency. |
| Relationship of Texts (bilingual) |
Greek subscription with mentioning of the Egyptian payer's name in Greek phonetic transliteration, and amount in Greek currency. |
| 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 Pelaias ..?.. [3¼ obols for] |
2 | | the servant tax
for the 3rd regnal year. Issued by P[senthotes, in the 3rd regnal year,] |
3 | |
24th of Pachons. |
4 | | Pelaias: 3¼ obols.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7845 |
man |
Pelaias (OMattha 225) |
PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ Παλαιυαις = Πελαιας (OMattha 225) |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
03 |
Pachons |
24 |
-244 July 9 BCE |
Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307333 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
43608 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307333 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51501), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
