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Publication Status	unpublished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	Pnefersois, son of Apollos
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

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Translation

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1	Thyqꜣs ¹This presumably Greek name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000).
2	sꜣ 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.
3	n ḥsb.t 18 sttr 2.t ḥsb.t 18
4	ı͗bd 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.

1	Thykas,
2	son of Zenodoros: 1 obol (for) the wool tax
3	for the 18th regnal year: 2 stater. 18th regnal year,
4	30th of Mesore.

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Places (read out from edition)

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

Kaplony-Heckel, Ursula, Eine Acker-Amt-Quittung aus Elephantine (DO Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 918) (2002). (33 n. 1)

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.