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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 996

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 996
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Publication Status unpublished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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Heavily faded
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Winde line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. The loewr right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 37 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 37 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for a lost tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Per⸢..?..⸣ is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣ , of having paid a lost tax.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pr ḥḏ qd 2
2n ḥḏ
3n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm sꜣ ḥsb.t

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Pr⸢..?..⸣ 2 silver kite
2for the tax ⸢..?..⸣
3Issued by Pachnoumis, son of ⸢..?..⸣. ⸢..?..⸣th regnal year, ⸢..?..⸣.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.9
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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
21870 (uncertain) Per⸢..?..⸣ Pr⸢..?..⸣ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 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 307558
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 307558 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 996), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.