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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 195

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 195
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 second fourth of the surface of the potsherd, with only very small lateral margins. The upper fourth and the lower half each remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	55	0
Column Height (in mm)	18	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	55 x 18	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for sheep tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pa-..?.. (Cairo 195)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Pamois, is confirmed by Pa-..?.. of having paid the rate for the sheep tax for the 3rd regnal year, in an amount of 1/3 kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-mꜣy ḥḏ qd ⅓
2	n pꜣ ı͗sw n ḥsb.t 3 n-ḏr.t Pa-
3	n ḥsb.t 3 ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 14

convex

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Pamois, ⅓ silver (kite)
2	for the sheep tax for the 3rd regnal year. Issued by Pa-..?..
3	in the 3rd regnal year, 14th of Mecheir.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8220	man	Pachnoumis, son of Pamois	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-mꜢy	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	03	Mecheir	14	-244 March 31 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by price level (according to M. Depauw);

Literature

Abd el-Aal, Soal, Some Demotic Receipts of Various Payments in the Cairo Museum (2004). (26 no. 7)

DatasetID	307404
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	100037
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 307404 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 195), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).