Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1021

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1021
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Publication Status	unpublished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)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	64	0
Column Height (in mm)	46	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	64 x 46	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harmais, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Horos, son of Imouthes, is confirmed by Harmais, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 17th regnal year, in an amount of ¼ kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ḥr sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ²In the mainly parallel Ostr. Oxf. Bodl. Eg. Inschr. 1010 of the same issuer the payer is the father of Horos, I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-Mn.
2	(sꜣ) Pa-Mn ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ (n) nḥb
3	n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Pa H̱nm
4	n ḥsb.t 18 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 11

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
² In the mainly parallel Ostr. Oxf. Bodl. Eg. Inschr. 1010 of the same issuer the payer is the father of Horos, I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-Mn.

1	Thus has brought Horos, son of Imouthes,
2	(son) of Phaminis, ¼ silver kite for the yoke tax
3	for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Harmais, son of Pachnoumis,
4	in the 18th regnal year, 11th of Pachons.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6985	man	Horos, son of Imouthes	Ḥr sꜢ Ỉy-m-ḥtp	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	18	Pachons	11	-267 July 2 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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Literature

Kaplony-Heckel, Ursula, Eine Acker-Amt-Quittung aus Elephantine (DO Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918) (2002). (33 n. 1)

DatasetID	307580
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 307580 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1021), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.