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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1008

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1008
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Publication Status unpublished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
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 a broad upper one. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 81 0
Column Height (in mm) 39 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 81 x 39 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Harmais, son of Espmetis, is confirmed of having paid the nḥt,t tax for the 19th regnal year, in an amount of 1 silver kite.
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 Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Ns-mtr ḥḏ qd 1 r sttr ½ r ḥḏ wd 1 ꜥn
2(n) ḥḏ nḥṱ.t (n) ḥsb.t 19 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm (sꜣ) Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s
3ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 10(?)

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Harmais, son of Espmetis, 1 silver kite, yields ½ stater, yields 1 silver kite again,
2for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 19th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, (son) of Thotortaios.
319th regnal year, 10th(?) of Epeiph.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22145 man Harmais, son of Espmetis Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜢ Ns-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 19 Epeiph 10 -266 August 30 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307570
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 307570 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1008), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.