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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for a lost tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
24610 | man | Panas | Pa-nꜣ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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; |
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. |