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Inventory Number | Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 957 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
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 | donation |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1984 and 1984 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Oxford, Manchester Collection Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, dark brown |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Some signs are faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the middle part of the surface of the potsherd, with only very small lateral margins. The upper left and lower right crotches remain uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | |
Quantity of Columns | 1 |
Modern Title | receipt for yoke tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 16th regnal year in an amount of 2 kite. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs -
S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia
Demotica 7 A-B), 621. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
7950 | man | Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis | PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 16 | Pachons | 21 | -269 July 16 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307466 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 51131 |
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 307466 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 957), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |