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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 900

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 900
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished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 incomplete
State of Preservation Lower right part broken off.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Beginnings of l. 3ff broken off. Text heavily faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch The text was placed centered onto the potshed, with a broader margin on top. The lower middle crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 78+y x 35+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Heras, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Pa[///] of having paid the compulsory labor tax.
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 Hrꜣ (sꜣ) Pa-wr ḥḏ qd 3 ///
2ḏbꜥ.t 1.t ḥḏ-qd 9 n ḥḏ n ꜥrṱ n-ḏr.t Pa-
3///ny (sꜣ) Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ ḥḏ qd ¼
4///

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus have brought Heras, son of Poeris, 3 silver kite ⸢///⸣
21 obol, 9 silver kite (for) the liturgy tax. Issued by Pa[///]
3⸢///⸣ny⸢..?..⸣, son of Pathotes: ¼ silver kite.
4⸢///⸣
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
29450 man Heras, son of Poeris Hrꜣ sꜣ Pa-wr Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307497
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 307497 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 900), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.