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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1022

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1022
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Publication Status unpublished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 right-aligned text was placed centered on the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 54 0
Column Height (in mm) 42 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 54 x 42 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content [///] and Payris are confirmed by Horos of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 6th regnal year in an amount of 2/3 silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. /// 2The scribe wiped out the name written first, and overwrote the blurred part with the new, but illegible name. ḥḏ qd 2/3 n
2Pa-Ḥr pꜣy=f šr ḥḏ qd 2/3 n
4ḥḏ ꜥrṱ(?) n ḥsb.t 6 n-ḏr-t Ḥr n ḥsb.t 6
4ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 12

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2 The scribe wiped out the name written first, and overwrote the blurred part with the new, but illegible name.
1[[///]]...?..: 2/3 silver kite for
2Payris, his son: 2/3 silver kite for
3the liturgy(?) tax for the 6th regnal year. Issued by Horos, in the 6th regnal year,
412th of Choiak.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26460 man Payris Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 Choiak 12 -241 January 28 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307581
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 307581 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1022), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.