Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1033
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1033 |
| Publication Number |
O.Bodl. inv 1033 kaplony |
| 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unpublished |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 complete text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small but unequal lateral margins. The lower part remains uninscribed. The upper left crotch remains uninscribed. |
| |
recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
61 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
33 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
|
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| Line Distance |
61 x 33 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
|
| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
|
| Summary of Content |
Horos, son of Harmachoros, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the salt tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of ⅓ ½ ¼ kite.
oil ?? |
| 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 |
| 23445 |
man |
Horos, son of Harmachoros |
Ḥr sꜢ Ḥr-mꜣꜥ-ḫrw |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
18 |
|
|
-320 BCE -229 BCE |
Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307591 |
| 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 307591 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1033), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
