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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1023

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1023
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Publication Status unpublished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 left corner 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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Endings of last lines broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral margins. The upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 71 0
Column Height (in mm) 33 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 71+y x 33 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Ta-..?.. is confirmed by Pa[///] of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 13th regnal year, in an amount of 2 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Tꜣ- Pa-wn ḥḏ qd 2 (n) ḥḏ
2ꜥrṱ(?) (n) ḥsb.t 13 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-
3ḥsb.t 14

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
2Thus has brought T⸢..?..⸣ Phagonis, 2 silver kite for the
2liturgy(?) tax for) the 13th regnal year. Issued by P⸢///⸣[///].
314th regnal year, ⸢..?..⸣.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
24765 woman T⸢..?..⸣ daughter(?) of Phagonis Tꜣ-⸢..?..⸣ Pa-wn pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 14 -234 BCE -233 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307582
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 307582 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1023), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.