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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 981

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 981
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Publication Status unpublished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 Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, without lateral margins. The large lower crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 88 0
Column Height (in mm) 39 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 88 x 39 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pathotes, son of Paesis, and Harnouphis are confirmed by Chnoum⸢..?..⸣[///], son of Pasenis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 12th regnal year. Countersigned by Pachnoumis, son of Horos.
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. ı͗n Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Pa-ꜣs.t Ḥr-nfr ḥḏ qd 7(?)
2ẖn nꜣy=w ḥḏ ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 12 n-ḏr.t H̱nm-
3sꜣ Pa-Sny n ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw /// sẖ Pa-H̱nm
4sꜣ Ḥr

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus have brought Pathotes, son of Paesis, (and) Harnouphis, 7(?) silver kite
2for their compulsory labor for the 12th regnal year. [Issued by] Chnoum⸢..?..⸣[///],
3son of Pasenis, in the 13th regnal year, ⸢///⸣th of Phaophi.[_] Countersigned by Pachnoumis,
4son of Horos.
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
24715 man Harnouphis (Bodl 944) Ḥr-nfr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 13 -235 BCE -234 BCE internal dating, without 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 307544
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 307544 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 981), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.