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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 928

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 928
Publication Number O.Bodl. 928 Kaplony
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Publication Status unpublished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, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 62 0
Column Height (in mm) 51 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 62 x 51 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Thoeris, daughter of ..?.., is confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 6th regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite. Countersigned by Stamnaichnoumis, son´of Pachnoumis and Pamenches.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Tꜣ-wr.t ta
2ḥḏ qd ¼ n ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 6 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t
3sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 2
4 sẖ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
5sẖ Pa-mnḫ

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Thoeris, daughter of ⸢..?..⸣,
2¼ silver kite for the salt tax for the 6th regnal year. Issued by Harpaesis,
3son of Pouoptis. 6th regnal year, 2nd of Thoth.
4Countersigned by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis.
5Countersigned by Pmenches.
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
24620 man Pamenches (Bodl 928) Pa-mnḫ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 Thoth 02 -242 October 20 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 307523
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 307523 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 928), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.