Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 947

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 947
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 right-aligned text is placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with only a small margin on top and without lateral margins. The lower third remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	60	0
Column Height (in mm)	44	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	60 x 44	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Imouthes, son of Pamenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of 1 kite = ½ stater.
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 I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ¹S. WÅNGSTEDT, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 31 no. 3 reads Pa-Mn. ḥḏ qd 1
2	r sttr ½ r ḥḏ qd 1 ꜥn n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t
3	n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwti-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
4	n ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 1 šmw ²S. WÅNGSTEDT, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 31 no. 3 reads pr.t. sw 16

¹ S. WÅNGSTEDT, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 31 no. 3 reads Pa-Mn.
² S. WÅNGSTEDT, "Demotische Steuerquittungen aus ptolemäischer Zeit", in: OrSu 17 (1968), 31 no. 3 reads pr.t.

convex

1	Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 1 (silver) kite,
2	yields ½ stater, yields 1 silver kite again, (for) the nḥṱ.t tax
3	for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, (son) of Thotortaios,
4	in the 18th regnal year, 16th of Pachons.

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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	Pachons	16	-267 July 11 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307415
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	51622
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307415 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 947), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.