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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 885

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 885
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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
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, some signs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Pouoptis, son of Harpaesis, of having paid the price of oil for the 10th regnal year Mecheir, in an amount of 1 silver 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. ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ns-mtr
2ḏbꜥ.t 1.t ½ n swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ
3n ḥsb.t 10 ı͗bd 2 šmw n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-wp.ṱ
4sꜣ Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t ḥsb.t 9 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 28

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis,
21½ obols for his value for oil
3for the 10th regnal year, Payni. Issued by Pouoptis,
4son of Harpaesis. 9th regnal year, 28th of Payni.
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
13440 man Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis (EgIn 885) Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Ns-pꜣ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 09 Payni 28 -238 April 13 BCE internal dating, without 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 307486
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 307486 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 885), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.