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Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 905

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 905
Current Location magazine
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Publication Status unpublished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 Surface partly abraded.
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 Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but broad upper and lower margins. The upper left and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 73 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 73 x 32

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for wool tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Thykas, son of Zenodoros, is confirmed of having paid the wool tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of 1 obol. Identification of the scribe by the hand.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1Thyqꜣs 1This presumably Greek name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
2sꜣ Sꜣnwtrs 2For this name, if interpreted correctly, see Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 930. ḏbꜥ.t 1 (n) ı͗n.nw 3I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München.
3n ḥsb.t 18 sttr 2.t ḥsb.t 18
4ı͗bd 4 šmw sw ꜥqry

1 This presumably Greek name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
2 For this name, if interpreted correctly, see Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 930.
3 I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München.
1Thykas,
2son of Zenodoros: 1 obol (for) the wool tax
3for the 18th regnal year: 2 stater. 18th regnal year,
430th of Mesore.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
23420 man Thykas, son of Zenodoros Thyqꜣs sꜣ Sꜣnwtrs Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Augustus 18 Mesore 30 -12 August 21 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307614
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 307614 (= Ostr. Oxford Ashm. O. dem. 905), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.