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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1013

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1013
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Publication Status unpublished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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Some signs faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 52 0
Column Height (in mm) 28 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 52 x 28 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 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 ⅓ 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 Ḥṱr sꜣ Pꜣ-wr ḥḏ (qd) ⅓ ẖn nꜣy=f
2ḥḏ (n) nḥṱ.t (n) ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Br
3(sꜣ) Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 16.t ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 27

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Hatres, son of Poeris, ⅓ silver (kite) for his
2nḥṱ.t tax for the 15th regnal year. Issued by Belles,
1(son) of Stamnaichnoumis. 16th regnal year, 27th of Mesore.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8315 man Hatres, son of Poeris Ḥtr sꜢ PꜢ-wr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 16 Mesore 27 -269 October 16 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307573
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 307573 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1013), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.