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Ostr. London, BM EA 14165

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14165
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 15 6 1876 and 15 6 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 incomplete
State of Preservation The left and lower parts are broken off.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All line endings are lost in an unknown extend.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 52 0
Column Height (in mm) 29 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 52+y x 29+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for a lost 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 Pa[///], is confirmed by [Horos] of having paid for a lost tax for the 6th regnal year. Countersigned by [///]. Identification of the scribe by the hand.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ı͗n Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Pa-
2..?.. (n) ḥsb.t 6 n-ḏr.t
3sẖ
R
1Thus has brought Harmais, son of Pa[///] [///]
2⸢..?..⸣ (for) the 6th regnal year. Issued by [///].
3Countersigned by [///].
London_BM_EA-14165_S1_
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London_BM_EA-14165_S2_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16140 man Harmais, son of Pa[///] Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜢ Pa-[///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 -242 BCE -241 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

London_BM_EA-14165_S1_
Reserved Copyright
London_BM_EA-14165_S2_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 307396
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 388718
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307396 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14165), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.