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Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 172 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | (unknown) Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | (unknown) 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 | (unknown) |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 0 and 0 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (unknown) Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 right-aligned text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, following the outline shape of the upper rim, with only very small lateral margins. On top, there is a margin of the height of aproximately on line left. The lower half remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 82 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 42 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 82 x 42 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for compulsory labor tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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Summary of Content | Pelaias, son of Imouthes, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the rate for the compulsory labor tax for the 30th regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1455 | man | Pelaias, son of Imouthes | Παλαίας ( Παλαία) Ἰμούθου = PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ Ỉy-m-ḥtp | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 30 | Mesore | 30 | -255 October 16 BCE | Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307403 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 100030 |
Author | Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307403 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 172), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |