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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1019

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1019
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Publication Status unpublished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 incomplete
State of Preservation lower right part broken off.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Beginning of the last line lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, without lateral margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 87 0
Column Height (in mm) 36 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 87 x 36 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for payment of money
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Harmais, son of Esminis, is confirmed by Phagonis, son of Pathothes, of having paid to him 1,5 silver kite. The receipt was written by Pikos.
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. Pa-wn sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ pꜣ nty ḏd n Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Ns-Mn
2ḏı͗=k n=y ḥḏ qd 1½ r sttr ½ ¼ r ḥḏ qd 1 ½ ꜥn
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣy-kꜣ ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw ꜥrqı͗

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Phagonis, son of Pathotes, is the one who speaks to Harmais, son of Esminis:
2You have given to me 1½ silver kite, yields ½ ¼ stater, yields 1½ silver kite again.
3[Issued by] Pikos. 6th regnal year, 30th of Payni.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
22205 man Harmais, son of Esminis Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Ns-Mn pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 Payni 30 -241 August 13 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307579
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 307579 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1019), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.