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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 935

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 935
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Publication Status unpublished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. the upepr right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 28 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 63 x 28 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for an unnamed tax (nḥṱ.t ?)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thortortaios, of having paid the money for an unnamed tax, presumably (nḥṱ.t or yoke tax) the 17th regnal year in an amount of 2 silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-Sny ḥḏ qd 2 r sttr 1
2(r) ḥḏ qd 2 ꜥn n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
3n ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 8
4sẖ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ H̱nm-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗=s ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 8

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Imouthes,son of Pasenis: 2 silver kite, yields 1 stater,
2(yields) 2 silver kite again, for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,
3 in the 17th regnal year, 8th of Pachons.
4Countersigned by Pachnoumis, son of Chnoumortaios. 17th regnal year, 8th of Pachons.
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
7070 man Imouthes, son of Pasenis Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 17 Pachons 08 -268 June 29 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307529
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 307529 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 935), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.