Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 903

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 903
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Publication Status	unpublished

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]

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 slightly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	100	0
Column Height (in mm)	42	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	100 x 42	0

Modern Title	receipt for nḥṱ.t tax and receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis of having paid the yoke tax for the 17th regnal year in an amount of 2 silver kite, and, in the second receipt, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax in an amount of ¼ silver kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ḥḏ qd 2 (r) sttr 1 (r) ḥḏ qd 2 ꜥn
2	n ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 17
3	ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 19 ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ḥḏ qd ¼ r ḏbꜥ.t 3 r ḥḏ qd ¼ ꜥn
4	(n) ḥḏ nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 27

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

	Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 2 silver kite, yields 1 stater, yields 2 silver kite again,
2	for the yoke tax for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, 17th regnal year,
3	19th of Pharmuothi. Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, ¼ silver kite, yields 3 obols, yields ¼ silver kite again,
4	(for) the nḥṱ.t tax for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis. 17th regnal year, 27th of Pharmouthi.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7070	man	Imouthes, son of Pasenis	Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	17	Pharmuthi	19	-268 June 10 BCE	date of first receipt internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307499
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 307499 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 903), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.