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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 887

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 887
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
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, some sighs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and broad upper and lower ones. The loewr left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 76 0
Column Height (in mm) 29 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 76 x 29 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content ⸢..?..⸣ is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the yoke tax for the 15th regnal year in an amount of 2½ silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n ḥḏ qd 2½
2(n) ḥḏ nḥbꜣ n ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
3sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s ḥsb.t 16 ⸢ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 1

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought ⸢..?..⸣ 2½ silver kite
2for the yoke tax for the 15th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis,
3son of Thotortaios. 16th regnal year, 1st of Payni.
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
13525 (uncertain) ⸢..?..⸣ (EgIn 887) ⸢..?..⸣ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 16 Payni 01 -269 July 22 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 307488
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 307488 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 887), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.