Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 893

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 893
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, without lateral margins. The small upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	84	0
Column Height (in mm)	39	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	84 x 39	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the poll tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of ½ kite = 1/4 stater. The issuance was made on declaration of Belles, son of Pa-ir-dit.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Ḥtr ¹S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 48 no. 25 reads Ḥwn. sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd ½ r sttr
2	¼ r ḥḏ qd ½ ꜥn n ḥḏ n nḥb.t n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t
3	Wrš-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm r ḫrw Br
4	sꜣ Pa-ı͗r-ḏı͗.t ²S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 48 no. 25 reads Pa-..?.. .n ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 14

¹ S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 48 no. 25 reads Ḥwn.
² S. Wångstedt, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 48 no. 25 reads Pa-..?.. .

convex

1	Thus has brought Hatres, (son) of Poeris, ½ silver kite, yields ¼
2	stater, yields ½ silver kite again, for the poll tax for the 18th regnal year. Issued by
3	Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis. [On declaration of] Belles,
4	son of Pa-ir-dit, in the 19th regnal year, 14th of Phamenoth.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7780	man	Belles, son of Pa-ir-dit	Bl sꜢ Pa-ỉr-ḏỉ.t	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	19	Phamenoth	14	-266 May 6 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

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Literature

DatasetID	307414
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	51638
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307414 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 893), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.