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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 983

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 983
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Publication Status unpublished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 Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire ) surface of the potsherd. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 76 0
Column Height (in mm) 43 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 76 x 43 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the yoke tax for the 15th regnal year, Thot, in an amount of 2 silver 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. ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp (sꜣ) Pa-sny ḥḏ qd 2
2ẖn nꜣy=f ḥḏ nḥbꜣ n ḥsb.t 15
3ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
4sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 2

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 2 silver kite
2for his yoke tax for the 15th regnal year,
3Thoth. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis,
4son of Thotortaios, in the 16th regnal year, 2nd of Thoth.
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 16 Thoth 02 -270 October 27 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 307546
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 307546 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 983), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.