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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 957

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 957
Current Location magazine
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, 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

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, dark brown
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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ḥḏ qd 2 ẖn nꜣy=f ḥḏ n
2nḥbꜣ n ḥsb.t 16 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
3n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 1 šmw 1Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 621. sw 21

1 Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 621.
convex
1Thus has brought Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis, 2 silver kite for his yoke
2tax for the 16th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,
3in the 16th regnal year, 21st of Pachons.
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

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Literature

 

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).