Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 993

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 993
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Publication Status	unpublished

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	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in small extent only.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some line endings broken off.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the potsherd, with small lateral margins and broad upper and lower ones.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70+y x 35	0

Modern Title	receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Hatres, son of Poeris, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the nḥt.t tax for the 15th regnal year in an amount of 1 silver kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Harthotes, son of Pelaias.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ḥṱr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ qd 1 r sttr ½ r ḥḏ qd 1 ꜥn
2	n ḥḏ (n) nḥṱ.t (n) ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Br (sꜣ) Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
3	r ḫrw Ḥr-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ ḥsb.t 15 ı͗bd 2 pr.t sw 1

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, 1 silver kite, yields ½ stater, yields 1 silver kite again,
2	for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 15th regnal year. Issued by Belles, (son) of Stamnai[chnoumis],
3	on declaration of Harthotes, son of Pelaias. 15th regnal year, 1st of Mecheir.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9195	man	Harthotes, son of Pelaias	Ḥr-Ḏḥwtỉ sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ỉḫ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	15	Mecheir	01	-270 March 25 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307555
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 307555 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 993), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.