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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 896

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 896
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. Only some signs 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 with a broad upper marign. The lower middle crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 57 0
Column Height (in mm) 43 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 57 x 43 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 18th regnal year, in an amount of 1 silver kite = ½ stater.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ḥḏ qd 1
2r sttr ½ (r) ḥḏ qd 1 ꜥn n ḥḏ nḥṱ.t
3n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s
4n ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 1

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 1 silver kite,
2yields ½ stater, (yields) 1 silver kite again, for the nḥṱ.t tax
3for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,
4in the 18th regnal year, 1st of ⸢Epeiph⸣.
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
7070 man Imouthes, son of Pasenis Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 18 Epeiph 01 -267 August 21 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 307493
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 307493 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 896), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.