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| Inventory Number | Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1015 |
| Publication Number | ined. Bodl. 1015 Kaplony |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. |
| Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Complete, some signs faded. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Script, additional A | Greek | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potshered, wish small lateral margins and broad upper and lower margins. The upper right and the lower left crotches remain uninscribed. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 92 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 40 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 92 x 40 | 0 |
| Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Petosiris, son of Pabelles, is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esyris, of having paid the salt tax for the 36th regnal year in an amount of ½ silver kite. Greek subscription mentioning the tax farmer Doros and the amount of money in Greek currency. |
| Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscription: Tax farmer Doros and amount of money in Greek currency. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
| Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription and translation by Jan
Moje. 2 This name is attested twice, on the Ptolemaic Ostr. Uppsaala VA 818:1 from Upper Egpt (S. WÅNGSTEDT, „Aus der demotischen Ostrakonsammlung zu Uppsala IV", in: OrSu 9 (1960), p. 62-74, here 62 no. I; and on the Early Ptolemaic Pap. London British Museum EA 10523: Vso 13 (S. R. K. GLANVILLE, A Theban Archive of the Reign of Ptolemy I. Soter, Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum 1, London 1939, 10 – 14).
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 15335 | man | Petosiris, son of Pabelles | PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr sꜢ Pa-brꜣ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 36 | Pharmuthi | 17 | -249 June 3 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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| DatasetID | 307575 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307575 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1015), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |
