Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 1
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 1 |
| Publication Number |
Cairo ined. 12464-1 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| Publication Status |
published |
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] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, red brown |
| 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 Handwriting |
Constant and stedy handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. On top, the slightly bent part is left free. The lower half of the potsherd with the huge crotch remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
85 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
40 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
85 x 40 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Taimouthes and Tameter, daughters of Pasenis, are confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 36th regnal year, in an amount of 0,5 kite (0,25 kite for each). |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Identifier of woman: daughter of a man (2 sisters)
- Activity of woman: tax payer |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
1 For the
name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ
70 (1995), 223–229, here 227.
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1 | | Thus has brought Taimouthes, daughter of Pasenis, and Ta-meter, |
2 | | her daughter, ½ (silver) kite for the salt tax for the 36th regnal year. Issued by
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3 | | Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, in the 36th regnal year, 30th of Mesore.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
36 |
Mesore |
30 |
-249 October 14 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307623 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81176 |
| Author |
Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307623 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
