Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 920

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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Publication Status	unpublished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]

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	Espmetis, son of Harsiese Panas
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

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

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Phaminis, the slave of Petegeh..?.., ½1/10(?) kite
2	for the yoke tax for the 4th regnal year. Issued(?) by Es(p)metis,
3	son of Harsiese. Countersigned by Panas. 5th regnal year, 19th of Phaophi.

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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;

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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.