Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 931

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 931
Current Location	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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
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)	Some signs, especially line 3, are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins and a slightly broader upper one. The loer left crrotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	86	0
Column Height (in mm)	29	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	86 x 29	0

Modern Title	receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis, is confirmed by Stammaichnoumis, son of Thortortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 15th regnal year in an amount of ⅓ silver kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Sḏm.n=ḥ-H̱nm ḥḏ qd ⅓ ẖr ḥḏ (n) nḥṱ.t
2	n ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 2(?) pr.t sw 12
3

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis, ⅓ silver kite for the nḥṱ.t tax
2	for th 15th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, in the 16th regnal year, 12th of Mecheir(?).
3	⸢..?..⸣

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7950	man	Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis	PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	16	Mecheir	12	-269 April 4 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307525
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 307525 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 931), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.