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Inventory Number | Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 985 |
Current Location | Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit) |
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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd. The lower part remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 82 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 28 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 82 x 28 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for yoke tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Pachnoumis, son of Pageber, is confirmed by Espmetis, son of Pathotes, of having paid the yoke tax for the 12th regnal year in an amount of 5 silver kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Harpaesis, son of Eponychos. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. 2 This name is only known twice to me, both within Ptolemaic documents: W. CLARYSSE – D. J. THOMPSON, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume I. Population registers (P. Count), Cambridge 2006, no. 2+3 (from Ghoran), and C. A. R. ANDREWS, Ptolemaic Legal Texts from the Theban Area, Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum 4, London 1990, no. 14:2 (Thebes West). |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
21815 | man | Harpaesis, son of Eponychos | Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Iw=f-ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 12 | Epeiph | 10 | -273 August 31 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307548 |
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 307548 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 985), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |