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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 879

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 879
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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
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 Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the lower part of the potsherd, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 82 0
Column Height (in mm) 46 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 82 x 46 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compensation
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pikos, son P..?.., is confirmed by Apytoutes(?), son of Apollos, of having paid the compensation for the 37th year, in an amount of 4½ stater, which fulfils 7 deben, 3 obols, and 9 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. r.wṱ Pꜣy-kꜣ sꜣ Pa-
2ẖr pꜣ gtglyn n ḥsb.t 37 sttr 4½
3r mḥ dbn 7 ḏbꜥ.t 3 ḥḏ qd 9 2Total 79 ¼ kite. n-ḏr.t n ḥsb. 38 n 𓍹Gyswrs ꜥws
4ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 7 n-ḏr.t ꜣpytwts sꜣ
5ꜣpls

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 Total 79 ¼ kite.
1Thus has brought Pikos, son of P..?..,
2for the compensation for the 37th year: 4½ stater
3which fulfils 7 deben, 3 obols, 9 silver kite. Issued in the 38th regnal year of Caesar LPH,
47th of Choiak. Issued by Apytoutes, son of
5Apollos.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
35890 man Pikos, son of P..?.. Pꜣy-kꜣ sꜣ Pa-.?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Augustus 38 Choiak 07 -308 December 1 BCE 284 CE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.8
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307481
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307481 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 879), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.