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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 920

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 920
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Publication Status unpublished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, but partly faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, without lateral margins, but with broad upper and lower margins. The upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for a lost tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Psemminis is confirmed by Nespmetis, son of Harsiese, of having paid a lost tax for the 5th regnal year in a lost amount. Countersigned by Panas.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.ı͗n Pꜣ-šr-Mn pꜣ(?) rmṯ n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-gh ḥḏ qd ½ 1/10(?)
2ẖr(?) ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 4 n-ḏr.t(?) Ns-(pꜣ)-mtr
3sꜣ Ḥr-sꜣ-ꜣs.t sẖ Pa-nꜣ ḥsb.t 5 ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 19

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Phaminis, the slave of Petegeh..?.., ½1/10(?) kite
2for the yoke tax for the 4th regnal year. Issued(?) by Es(p)metis,
3son of Harsiese. Countersigned by Panas. 5th regnal year, 19th of Phaophi.
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
24610 man Panas Pa-nꜣ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 05 Phaophi 19 -243 December 6 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307515
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 307515 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 920), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.