Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1001

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1001
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Publication Status	unpublished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	Right part broken off in undetermined extent
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)	All line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Very wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the (preserved) potsherd, with medium upper and lower margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	58	0
Column Height (in mm)	22	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+58 x 22	0

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Paieus (BodL. 1018)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], son of ..?.., is confirmed by Paieus of having paid the price of oil for the 11th or 12th regnal year in an amount of ⅓ silver kite.
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 /// sꜣ ḥḏ qd ⅓ n swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ
2	n ı͗bd x šmw n-ḏr.t Pa-ı͗wı͗w n ḥsb.t 12
3

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	[Thus has brought ///], son of ..?.., ⅓ silver kite for the value for oil
2	[for the xth month] of summer. Issued by Paieus, in the 12th regnal year,
3	[///]⸢..?..⸣.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
26295	man	[///], son of ..?.. (Bodl 1001)	[///] sꜣ ..?..	(not identified)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	12			-236 BCE -235 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	307563
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 307563 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1001), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.