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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1014

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1014
Current Location Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)

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) Complete, but partly faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 72 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 72 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil and 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 Paimouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by [///] of having paid the price of oil and a lost tax for the 1st regnal year. Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Esyris.
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 Pa-I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny ḏbꜥ.t 1½
2n nḥḥ ḥḏ (n) ḥḏ
3ḥsb.t 1 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12 n-ḏr.t ///
4sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
5ḥsb.t 1 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Paimouthes, son of Pasenis, 1½ obols
2for oil (and) ..?.. tax.
31st regnal year, 12th of Mesore. Issued by ⸢///⸣.
4Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Esyris,
51st regnal year, 12th of Mesore.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25160 man Espmetis, son of Esyris (Bodl 1014) Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-Ḥr (C) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 01 Mesore 12 -246 September 26 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307574
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 307574 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1014), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.