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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 894

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 894
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) Some signs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entires surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a medium uooer maring. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 67 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 67 x 40 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 Pete[///], son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Chnpumorchois, son of [///], of having paid the yoke tax for the 10th regnal year in an amont of 8 silver kite = 4 stater.
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 Pꜣ-ḏı͗-/// sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥḏ qd 8
2r sttr 4.t r ḥḏ qd 8 ꜥn (n) ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 10
3n-ḏr.t H̱nm-ı͗r-rḫ-s
4ı͗bd 3 pr.t(?) sw 19(?)

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Pete⸢///⸣, son of Pachnoumis, 8 silver kite,
2yields 4 stater, yields 8 silver kite again, for the yoke tax for the 10th regnal year.
3Issued by Chnoumorchois.
419th(?) of Phamenoth.
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
13675 man Pete⸢///⸣, son of Pachnoumis Pꜣ-ḏı-⸢///⸣ sꜣ Pa-Hnm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 10 Phamenoth 19(?) -275 May 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 307491
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 307491 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 894), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.