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| Collection | London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14159 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| 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 Type | ostracon |
| Dating of Object | Late Period > Graeco-Roman |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Left part broken off |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | All line endings are broken in undetermined extent. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the potsherd, between the two horizontal painted strokes of the original decoration, without a right margin. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 75+y x 75 | 0 |
| Modern Title | receipt for a lost tax |
| Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | [///] and his wife Sent⸢..?..⸣[///] are confirmed by Pa..?..[///] of having paid a lost tax for the 14th regnal year. Countersigned by Imouthes, son of Eskasothes. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man Woman |
| Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 16980 | man | Imouthes, son of Eskasothes (BM EA 14159 u.a.) | Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Ns-qꜣy-šw.ty | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 14 | -246 BCE -222 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
| London_BM_EA-14159_S1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| London_BM_EA-14159_S2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 307394 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 388715 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307394 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14159), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
