Ostr. London, BM EA 14141
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. London, BM EA 14141 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
Origin / Provenance
| 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 1876 and 1876 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Junker, Hermann
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
two-sided |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
Heavily faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
cc:
Medium line pitch,
The text was placed centered onto the potshert, with small lateral margins. The upper and lower left crotches remain uninscribed.
cv:
Merdium line pitch.
The text was placed onto the right half of the potsherd. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
3 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
59 |
41 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
36 |
29 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
59 x 36 |
41 x 29 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for a lost tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Petimouthes(?) son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Harmais(?) of having paid an uncertain tax of the 14th regnal year in an amuont of 4 silver kite.
Text on inner side possibly not belonging to the main text. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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cc1 | | ..?..
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cc2 | | ..?..|
cc3 | | ..?..
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1 | | Thus has brought Petimouthes(?), son of Pachnoumis, |
2 | | 4 silver kite (for) the ⸢..?..⸣ tax for the 14th regnal year. |
3 | | Issued by Harmais(?) in the 14th regnal year, 2nd(?) of Thoth.
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cc1 | | ⸢..?..⸣ |
cc2 | | ⸢..?..⸣ |
cc3 | | ⸢..?..⸣
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
14 |
Thoth |
02 |
-272 October 27 BCE |
Internal dating, with name of the ruler.; |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
307393 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
388707 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307393 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14141), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
