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Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 172

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 172
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥḏ qd 1 n ꜥrṱ
2 n ḥsb.t 30 n-ḏr.t Br sꜣ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 30
3ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 30
convex
1Thus has brought Pelaias, son of Imouthes, 1 silver kite (for) the compulsory labor
2(for) the 30th regnal year. Issued by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis. 30th regnal year,
330th of Mesore.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Literature

 

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).