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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 946

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 946
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Publication Status unpublished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.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text was placed centerd on the surface of the potsherd. The upper right and lower left crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 88 0
Column Height (in mm) 58 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 88 x 58 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for date palms
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Arianos(?), son of Peteyris, and Imouthes, son of Imouthes, are confirmed of having paid the money for palm dates for the 17th regnal year in an amount of 2,5 obols.
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. r.wṱ ꜣryꜣns(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗ Ḥr-wr
2ı͗rm I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ sp-2 n ḥsb.t 16 (pꜣ) ḥḏ tke n bn.t
3ḏbꜥ.t 2.t ½ n-ḏr.t ḥsb.t 17 n 𓍹 Tyrn ꜥ.w.s 𓍹Gsrs ꜥ.w.s
4nty ḫw ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 26

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1That which was paid cash by Arianos(?), son of Peteyris,
2together with Imouthes, son of the Homonymous, in the 16th regnal year, (for) the money for date-palm fruits(?):
32½ obols. Written in the 17th regnal year of Traianus L.H.P. Caesar L.P.H.
4Augustus, 26th of Hathyr.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31125 man Arianos(?), son of Peteyris ꜣryꜣns(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗ Ḥr-wr Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 17 Choiak 26 113 December 21 CE Internal dating, with 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 307538
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 307538 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 946), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.