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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 985

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 985
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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 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

 

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 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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-gbr 2This 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). ḥḏ qd 5 n ḥḏ n
2nḥby n ḥsb.t 12 n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗
3n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 10 r ḫrw Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ I͗w=f-ꜥnḫ

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).
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Pageber, 5 silver kite for the
2yoke tax for the 12 regnal year. Issued by Espmetis, son of Pathotes,
3in the 12th regnal year, 10th of Epeiph, on declaration of Harpaesis, son of Ephonychos.
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
21815 man Harpaesis, son of Eponychos Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Iw=f-ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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Literature

 

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.