Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1026

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1026
Publication Number	O.Bodl. 1026
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Publication Status	unpublished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 onto the potsherd, without laterla margins, with broad upper and lower margins
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	74	0
Column Height (in mm)	36	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	74 x 36	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harmiysis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tahemes is confirmed by Harmiysis of having paid the salt tax for the 8th regnal year in an amount of 3 obols. Countersigned by Parates, son of Payris.
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: none

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Tꜣ-hms ²This name is not known to me elsewhere. ḏbꜥ.t 3 n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
2	n ḥsb.t 8 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-mꜣy-ḥs(?) ³The reading is not entirely clear, but see the the writings attested in LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 815 – 816, and the versions of mꜣy in CDD h, 19 (Ptolemaic, Pap Louvre 2414b, 1,3). n ḥsb.t 8 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 22
3	sẖ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-Ḥr

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
² This name is not known to me elsewhere.
³ The reading is not entirely clear, but see the the writings attested in LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 815 – 816, and the versions of mꜣy in CDD h, 19 (Ptolemaic, Pap Louvre 2414b, 1,3).

1	Thus has brought Tahemes 3 obols for the salt tax
2	for the 8th regnal year. Issued by Harmiysis(?), in the 8th regnal year, 22th of Thoth.
3	Countersigned by Parates, son of Payris.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1540	man	Parates, son of Payris	Pa-rṱ sꜢ Pa-Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	08	Thoth	22	-240 November 8 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	307585
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 307585 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1026), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.