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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1036

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1036
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Publication Status unpublished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 Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, with small lateral margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 45 0
Column Height (in mm) 45 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 45 x 45 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for money paying
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Pikos, son of Petekhenpokrates, and Horonouchis, son of ..?.., are confirmed by an anonymus of having paid 247 drachmas in a month.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. Pꜣy-kꜣ sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḫnsw-pꜣ-ẖrṱ
2Ḥr-ꜥnḫ sꜣ
3ı͗bd 3 šmw 247
4ḥsb.t x ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 22

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Pikos, son of Petekhenpokrates,
2(and) Horouonchis, son of ..?..
3Epeiph: [_] 247 (silver deben).
4[xth regnal year], 22nd of Phaophi.
Oxford_Ashm_Eg.Inscr.1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
28445 man Pikos, son of Petekhenpokrates Pꜣy-kꜣ sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḫnsw-pꜣ-ẖrṱ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307594
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 307594 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 1036), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.