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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 904

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 904
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Publication Status unpublished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 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.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd, with small lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 75 x 30 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 Panouphis, son of Sokeus, is confirmed by Petepathas, son of Harbes(?), of having paid the yoke tax for the 10th regnal year in an amount of 6 silver kite.
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 Pa-nfr sꜣ Sbk-ı͗w ḥḏ qd 6 n ḥḏ nḥb.t
2n ḥsb.t 10 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Pa-Ptḥ sꜣ Ḥr-bs 2For this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 800.3 ḥsb.t 10
3ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 11

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 For this name cf. Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 800.
3
1Thus has paid Panouphis, son of Sokeus, six silver kite for the yoke tax
2for the 10th regnal year. Issued by Petepathas, son of Harbes(?). 10th regnal year,
311th of Choiak.
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
24660 man Panouphis, son of Sokeus Pa-nfr sꜣ Sbk-ıw pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 10 Choiak 11 -275 February 4 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307500
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 307500 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 904), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.