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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 915

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 915
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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 centered onto the potsherd, without a right margin, but wiht a broad lower margin. The upper right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 57 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 57 x 32 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 Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 19th regnal year in an amount of 1 silver kite = ½ stater.
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 Ḥtr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1 r sttr ½
2r ḥḏ qd 1 ꜥn (n) ḥḏ (n) nḥb (n) ḥsb.t 19 n-ḏr.t Br
3sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm n ḥsb.t 20.t ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 22

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brough Hatres, son of Poeris, 1 silver kite, yields ½ stater,
2yields 1 silver kite again, (for) the yoke tax (for) the 19th regnal year. Issued by Belles,
3son of Stamnaichnoumis, in the 20th regnal year, 22nd of Hathyr.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8315 man Hatres, son of Poeris Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 20 Hathyr 22 -265 January 14 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307510
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 307510 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 915), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.