Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918 |
| 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, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery |
find (unspecified)
Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) |
(unknown)
Certainty: high |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [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 to Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Narrow line pitch.
The right-aligned main text (l. 1-3) is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with a only small right margin. In the lower half, the countersignature with repetition of the quantiy was written, by another hand, with much more pale ink. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
66 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
43 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
66 x 43 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for allocation of aruras (for harvest tax) |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Ammonios, son of Petechonsis and Matielos are confirmed by an unnamed person of receiving an allotment of 6 aruas from 15 aruras at 5½ artabas wheat. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Ethnicity / Multiculturalism |
persons with Greek names in Demotic |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | 13th regnal year. It was allocated to Ammonios, |
2 | | son of Petechonsis, (and) Matielos from |
3 | | 15 aruras at 5½ (artabas) wheat: 6 aruras, yields 3 aruras, yields 6 aruras again. |
4 | | Issued by Tyuy, son of Menandros: |
5 | | 6 aruras, yields 3 (aruras), yields 6 aruras again. In the 13th regnal year.
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Augustus |
13 |
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-18 BCE -17 BCE |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307470 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
51274 |
| Author |
Jan Moje |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307470 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
