Ostr. London, BM EA 14074

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	(unknown)
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	find (unspecified) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rev Greville John Chester Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 15 6 1876 and 15 6 1876
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Junker, Hermann Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Line endings broken off, heavily faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with medium upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	39	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	80 x 39	0

Modern Title	receipt for a lost tax and for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Petobastis, son of Esyris
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	First receipt: Obestertais, daughter of [///], is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esyris, of having paid a lost tax for the 18th regnal year in a lost amount. Second receipt: Chnoumortais, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esyris, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 19th regnal year in an amount of 1 kite. Greek subscription mentioning tax farmer Doros.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription: Tax farmer Doros. By Doros.
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: daughter of [///]

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Bꜣst.t-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ta
2	(n) ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr ḥsb.t 18
3	ı͗n H̱nm-ı͗.ı͗-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mt(r) ḥḏ qd 1.t
4	ḥḏ ꜥrṱ (n) ḥsb.t 19 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

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5	διὰ Δώρου (?)

1	Thus has brought Obestertais, ⸢daughter of⸣ [///]
2	(for) the 18th regnal year. Issued by Petobastis, son of Esyris. 18th regnal year, [///].
3	Thus has brought Chnoumortaios, son of Espmetis, 1 silver kite ⸢..?..⸣
4	for the compulsory labor tax (for) the 19th regnal year. Issued by Petobastis, son of Esyris. [///]
5	Through Doros(?).

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16965	man	Chnoumorchois, son of Espmetis	H̱nm-ỉr-rḫ-s sꜢ Ns-pꜣ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	19			-229 October 16 BCE -228 October 14 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	307390
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	388693
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307390 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14074), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).