Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1029
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1029 |
| Publication Number |
O.Bodl. inv. 1029 |
| 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unpublished |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 was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, without lateral margins, but with a broad upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed. |
| |
recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
61 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
30 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
61 x 30 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
|
| Summary of Content |
Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the salt tax for the 19th regnal year in an amount of ½ kite. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7070 |
man |
Imouthes, son of Pasenis |
Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
20 |
Hathyr |
21 |
-265 January 13 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307588 |
| 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 307588 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1029), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
