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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 800

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 800
Current Location magazine

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
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 52 0
Column Height (in mm) 54 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 52 x 54 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Petosiris, son of Espmetis Junior, is confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Herieus of having paid the poll tax for the 31st regnal year in an amount of 4 stater.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1r.wṱ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r
2(sꜣ) Ns-pꜣ-mtr pꜣ ḫm n wꜥ jw 1I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München.
3ẖr ḥḏ (n) ꜥpe
4ḥsb.t 31 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 20
5 sttr 4.t
6n-ḏr.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Hrı͗=w
7ẖr sttr 4.t

1 I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München.
1That which was paid cash by Petosiris,
2(son) of Espmetis Junior, as a mor-
3tage for the poll tax.
431st regnal year, 20th of Phamenoth.
5[_] 4 stater.
6Issued by Harpaesis, son of Herieus,
7about 4 stater.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23415 man Petosiris, son of Espmetis (Ashm 800) PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr sꜣ Ns-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Augustus 31 Phamenoth 20 2 March 14 CE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307611
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 307611 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 800), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.