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Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51507

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51507
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 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 right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a broad margin one on top. On the right side, the text is closed to the rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for servant tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pachnoumis, son of ..?.., is confirmed by Psenthotes of having paid the rate for the servant tax for the 3rd regnal year, in an amount of 3¼ obols. Greek subscription with mention of the Egyptian payer's name in Greek phonetic transliteration, and amount in Greek currency.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscription: Egyptian payer's name in Greek phonetic transliteration, 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
convex
1ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ ḏbꜥ.t 3¼ ẖn
2ꜥq n rmṯ-ı͗w=f šms n ḥsb.t 3.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-šr-Ḏḥwtı͗ n ḥsb.t 3.t
3ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 24
4Παχνοῦμ ις 𐅾 Ƨ
convex
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of ..?.., 3¼ obols for
2the servant tax for the 3rd regnal year. Issued by Psenthotes, in the 3rd regnal year,
324th of Pachons.
4Pachnoumis: 3¼ obols.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7855 man Pachnoumis, son of ..?.. (OMattha 226) Pa-H̱nm sꜢ ..?.. = Παχνῦμις (OMattha 226) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

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 307334
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 43609
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307334 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 51507), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.