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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 930

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 930
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Status unpublished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 incomplete
State of Preservation Left part broken off.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) End of first line broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins, and with a small and inequal right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 1
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 63+y x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for payment or delivery
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pachnoumis, son of [///], is confirmed by Pa⸢..?..⸣, son of ⸢..?..⸣, of having paid (or of having received) an amount of 11 silver deben.
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. ḥsb.t 9 ı͗bd 4 2Or to read ı͗bd 3 ? šmw sw ꜥrqı͗ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ
2 (ḥḏ dbn) 11
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣ- sꜣ

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 Or to read ı͗bd 3 ?
19th regnal year, 30th of Mesore. Pachnoumis, son of [///]
2⸢..?..⸣ 11 (silver deben).
3Issued by Pa⸢..?..⸣, son of ⸢..?..⸣.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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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
6810 man Pachnoumis, son of [///] Pa-H̱nm sꜢ [///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307524
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 307524 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 930), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.