Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 3
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 3 |
| 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, yellow 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 |
Rather steady handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with only a very small margin on top. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
55 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
40 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
55 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 |
Senepmous, wife of Espmetis, is confirmed by Harpesis, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 12th regnal year, in an amount of 0,25 kite. Countersigned by Panas, son of Nechthotes, and Spotous, son of Patous. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man
Woman |
| Comment on Gender |
- Identifier of woman: wife of a man
- Activity of woman: tax payer |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
1 Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 749
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1 | | Thus has brought Senepmous, the wife of Espmetis, |
2 | | ¼ silver kite for the salt tax for the 12th regnal year. Issued by Harpaesis, |
3 | | son of Pouoptis, in the 11th regnal year, 7th of Pharmouthi. |
4 | | Countersigned by Panas, son of Nechthotes. |
5 | | Countersigned by Spotous, son of Patous.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 8805 |
man |
Panas, son of Nechthotes |
Pa-nꜢ sꜢ Nḫt-Ḏḥwỉ |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
11 |
Pharmuthi |
07 |
-236 May 21 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307625 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81182 |
| 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 307625 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
