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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 958

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 958
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, red 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 right-aligned text is placed onto the middle part of the surface of the potsherd, with only very small lateral margins. The little upper left and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 38 0

 

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 Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 18th regnal year, in an amount of 3,5 Kite. 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 Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḥtr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 3½
2 n pꜣy=f ḥḏ n nḥbꜣ n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Wrš-nfr sꜣ
3Pa-H̱nm r-ḫrw Br sꜣ Pa-ı͗r-ḏı͗.t 1Reading of the father's name: suggestion J. MOJE.
4ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 6

1 Reading of the father's name: suggestion J. MOJE.
convex
1Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, 3½ (silver) kite
2(for) his yoke tax for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Orsenouphis, [son]
3of Pachnoumis. On declaration of Belles, son of Pa-ir-dit 1Reading of the father's name: suggestion J. MOJE. .
419th regnal year, 6th of Choiak.

1 Reading of the father's name: suggestion J. MOJE.
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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 Choiak 06 -266 January 28 BCE Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307468
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51132
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 307468 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 958), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).