Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 929
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 929 |
| 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 |
Wide line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins. The lower half as well as the upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed. |
| |
recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
2 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
56 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
30 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
|
|
| Line Distance |
56 x 30 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Thoteus, son of Teos, is confirmed by Peteptah of having paid for oil in an amount of ¼ kite. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7880 |
man |
Thoteus, son of Teos |
Ḏḥwtj-ỉw sꜢ Ḏd-ḥr |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) |
05 |
Thoth |
27 |
-332 BCE -222 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307337 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
49772 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307337 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 929), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
