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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 949

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 949
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Publication Status unpublished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 Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 31 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 78 x 31 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for bath tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Paosiris, son of Onnophris, is confirmed by Petepanouphis(?), son of Petamenophis, of having paid the bath tax for the 8 th regnal year in an amount of 1 obol and 0,5 kite.
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. Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Pa-nfr(?) sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-ı͗py pꜣ nty ḏd n Pa-Wsı͗r
2sꜣ Wn-nfr tw=y mḥ ḏbꜥ.t 1 ḥḏ qd ½ s.t-
3-ı͗wn n-ḏr.t ḥsb.t 8 n 𓍹Gysrs ꜥws
4ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 22

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Petepanouphis(?), son of Petamenophis, is the one who speaks to Paosiris,
2son of Onnophris: I am fully paid with 1 obol and ½ silver kite for the bath
3tax. Issued in the 8th regnal year of Caesar,
422nd of Choiak.
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
695 man imperator 01 Augustus: Augustus Caesar Gysrs = Qysr(s), Αὐγούστος Καίσαρος, pꜣ nṯr Latin

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Augustus 08 Choiak 22 -23 December 16 BCE 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 307539
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 307539 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 949), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.