Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 886
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 886 |
| Current Location |
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit) |
| 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unpublished |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 |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral and upper margins. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
46 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
26 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
46 x 26 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| 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 |
Protomachos is confirmed by Amenothes, son of Pathotes, of having paid the price of oil for the 3rd regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite. |
| 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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| | Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Prtmqws
This name is not attested in LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). The vartiants Prtwmqs and Prwtwmqws are mentioned in W. CLARYSSE – D. J. THOMPSON, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume I. Population registers (P. Count), Cambridge 2006, no. 9:36, and no. 2+3, both early Ptolemaic and from the Arsinoites. ḥḏ qd ¼ |
2 | | (n) swn (n pꜣ) nḥḥ ḥsb.t 3.t ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 2 n-ḏr.t |
3 | | I͗mn-ḥtp (sꜣ) Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 This name is not attested in LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). The vartiants Prtwmqs and Prwtwmqws are mentioned in W. CLARYSSE – D. J. THOMPSON, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume I. Population registers (P. Count), Cambridge 2006, no. 9:36, and no. 2+3, both early Ptolemaic and from the Arsinoites.
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1 | | Thus has brought Protomachos ¼ silver kite |
2 | | (for) the value for oil. 3rd regnal year, 2nd of Phaophi. Issued by |
3 | | Amenothes, (son) of Pathotes.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 24650 |
man |
Protomachos (Bodl 886) |
Prtmqws |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
03 |
Phaophi |
02 |
-245 November 19 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307487 |
| 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 307487 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 886), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
