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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 891

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 891
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 Rather wide line pitch. The right-aligned text is placed onto the upper two-third of the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. On top, there is a slightly broader margin. The lower third of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 88 0
Column Height (in mm) 33 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 88 x 33 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 Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of 1,5 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny 1S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 32 no. 4 reads Pa-Mn. ḥḏ qd 1½ n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t
2n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwti-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ḥsb.t 18
3ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 6

1 S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 32 no. 4 reads Pa-Mn.
convex
1Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 1½ (silver) kite (for) the nḥṱ.t tax
2for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios. 18th regnal year,
36th of Mesore.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7070 man Imouthes, son of Pasenis Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 18 Mesore 06 -267 September 29 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307412
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51623
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307412 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 891), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.