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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 |
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 Type | ostracon |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for servant tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
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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 |
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.; |
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. |