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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 989

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 989
Publication Number O.Mattha 132
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 covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small and inequal margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 89 0
Column Height (in mm) 42 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 89 x 42 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Harmais, son of Imouthes, and his wife Senpoeris are confirmed by Patous, son of Horos, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 35th regnal year in an amount of 2/3+1/12 kite. Greek subscription mentioning the tax farmer not given in the demotic part and the amount in Greek currency. Again in Demotic, coutersigned by Petobatis, son of Esyris.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscription: Tax farmer, amount in Greek currency.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Bilingual
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥnꜥ Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-wr tꜣy=f rmṯ.t ḥḏ qd ⅔ 1/12
2n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 35 n-ḏr.t Pa-tꜣ.wı͗ sꜣ Ḥr n ḥsb.t 35 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 6
convex
3διὰ Δώρου (δραχμὴν) α (τριώβολον)
convex
4sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
convex
1Thus has brought Harmais, son of Imouthes, and Senpoeris, his wife, ⅔ 1/12 silver (kite)
2for the salt tax (for) the 35th regnal year. Issued by Patous, son of Horos, in the 35th regnal year, 6th of Pachons.
convex
3Through Doros: 1 drachma, 3 obols.
convex
4Countersigned by Petobatis, son of Esyris.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4290 man Doros (logeutes) Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 35 Pachons 06(?) -250 June 27(?) BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307341
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49791
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307341 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 989), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.