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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 914

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 914
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Publication Status unpublished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 text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 64 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 64 x 38 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Ar..?.. is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 14th regnal year in an amount of ¼ 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 ꜣrꜣsr ḥḏ qd ¼
2(n) swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ (n) ḥsb.t 14 ı͗bd 4 šmw
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wı͗ sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wı͗ pꜣ ꜥꜣ

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Ar⸢..?..⸣r ¼ silver kite
2for the value for oil for the 14th regnal year Mesore.
3Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous Senior.
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
24675 (uncertain) Ar⸢..?..⸣r ꜣr⸢..?..⸣ꜣsr (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 14 Mesore -233 September 11 BCE -233 October 10 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 307509
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 307509 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 914), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.