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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 911

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 911
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Publication Status unpublished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 Upper and lateral parts broken off in undetermined extent.
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) Upper part and all line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text shows a broad lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 52 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+65+y x x+52 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title payment receipt / payment request (?)
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content A person is requested by Esonnophris, son of Pasenis, of payment. Details unclear due the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x+1
x+2 ı͗.ı͗r nꜣ ı͗w.w ı͗w
x+3 ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 25 n-ḏr.t Ns-Wn-
x+4 -nfr sꜣ Pa-Sny r-ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Ḥr
x+5 ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 25
x+1 [///]⸢..?...⸣
x+2 [///] Conduct(?) the inpayments, who ⸢..?...⸣ [///]
x+3 [5th regnal year] 25th of Epeiph. Issued by [Eson-]
x+4 -nophris, son of Pasenis, on declaration of Pachnoumis, [son of Payris]
x+5 5th [regnal year], 25th of Epeiph.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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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
8370 man Pachnoumis, son of Payris Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 05 Epeiph 25 -280 September 17 BCE Dating by content. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307506
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 307506 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 911), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.