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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1024

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1024
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Publication Status unpublished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, but partly faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper three fourth of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 67 0
Column Height (in mm) 53 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 67 x 53 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax and receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Thotortaios, son of Esyris, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, , of having paid the yoke tax and the nḥṱ.t tax for the 17th regnal year in an amount of 1(?) silver kite (each?).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Ns///
2n ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
3n ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 18
4ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s ḥḏ qd 1(?)
5(n) ḥḏ ⸢nḥṱ.t⸣ (n) ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
6n ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 18

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Thotortaios, son of Es⸢///, x kite⸣,
2for the yoke tax for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnai[chnoumis],
3in the 17th regnal year, 18th of Pachons.
4Thus has brought Thotortaios 1(?) silver kite
5(for) the nḥṱ.t tax (for) the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnai[chnoumis],
6in the 17th regnal year, 18th of Pachons.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12095 man Thotortaios, son of Esyris Ḏḥwtỉ-ỉ.ỉr-ḏỉ-s sꜣ Ns-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 17 Pachons 18 -268 July 9 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307583
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 307583 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1024), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.