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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1020

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1020
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
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 () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm
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 text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 34 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 34 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 19th 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 Ḥtr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1 r sttr ½
2r qd 1 ꜥn n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 19
3n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwti-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ḥsb.t 19
4ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 22
convex
1Thus has brought Hatres, son of Pasenis, 1 (silver) kite, yields ½ stater,
2yields 1 (kite) again, (for) the nḥṱ.t tax (for) the 19th regnal year.
3Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, (son) of Thotortaios. 19th regnal year,
422nd of Payni.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8315 man Hatres, son of Poeris Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 19 Payni 22 -266 August 16 BCE Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307410
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51625
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307410 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1020), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.