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Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 216

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 216
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	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The endings of some lines are lost today.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Very wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper two-third of the surface of the potsherd, without lateral and upper margins. The lower third of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	25	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	80 x 25	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Espmetis, son of Petechonsis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Heregetes, is confirmed by Espmetis, son of Petechonsis, of having paid the price of oil for the 20th regnal year, in a lost amount.
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 Hrgts ḥḏ ///
2	n swn n nḥḥ r. šp=f n ı͗bd 4 pr.t
3	n ḥsb.t 20 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 18
4	n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mty sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḫnsw

convex

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Heregetes, [///silver kite]
2	(for) the value of oil, which he has received for Pharmouthi.
3	in the 20th regnal year, 18th of Pharmouthi.
4	Issued by Espmetis, son pf Petechonsis.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8225	man	Pachnoumis, son of Heregetes	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Hrgts	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	20	Pharmuthi	18	-227 May 30 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

Literature

Abd el-Aal, Soal, Some Demotic Receipts of Various Payments in the Cairo Museum (2004). (27-28 no. 9)

DatasetID	307405
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	100039
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 307405 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 18953 / 216), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).