Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 959
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 959 |
| Publication Number |
Enchoria 16, 87, no. 4 |
| 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, brown |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
The upper left corner is broken off. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
convex (outside) |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
The end of the first line is lost. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins. The lower part remains uninscribed.
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
65 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
32 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
65 x 32 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for nḥṱ.t tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Imouthes, son of Pamenis, is confirmed by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the rate for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year, in an amount of 1 Kite = 0,5 staters. The issuance was made on declaration of Spemminis, son of Horos. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp
sꜣ
Pa-sny
ḥḏ
qd 1 r sttr ½ r qd 1 ꜥn n ḥḏ
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2 | | n nḥṱ.t For the tax type, cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 621. n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t
sꜣ
Pa-H̱nm|
3 | | r-ḫrw Šp-Mn sꜣ Ḥr
ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 19
1 For the tax type, 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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1 | | Thus has brought Imouthes, (son) of Pasenis, 1 (silver) kite, yields ½ stater, yields 1 kite [again, for the] |
2 | | nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Petepiphis, (son) of Pachnoumis. |
3 | | On declaration of Spemminis, son of Horos. 19th regnal year, 19th of Thoth.
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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 |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
19 |
Thoth |
19 |
-267 November 12 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307469 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
51133 |
| 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 307469 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 959), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
