Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 932

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 932
Current Location	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Status	unpublished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
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.
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. The small upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	67	0
Column Height (in mm)	29	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	67 x 29	0

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 19th regnal year in an amount of 1 silver kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Tefnachthis, son of Imouthes.
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 Ḥtr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1 (n) ḥḏ (n) nḥby
2	n ḥsb.t 19 n-ḏr.t Br sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm r-ḫrw Tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
3	sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 29

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, 1 silver kite (for) the yoke tax
2	for the 19th regnal year. Issued by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, on declaration of Tefnachtis,
3	son of Imouthes. 19th regnal year, 29th of Pharmouthi.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8315	man	Hatres, son of Poeris	Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	19	Pharmuthi	29	-266 June 20 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307526
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 307526 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 932), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.