Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 4
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Metadata
Collection
Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 4 |
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, 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) |
incomplete |
State of Preservation (Text) |
The left parts of both middle lines are erased. |
Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
Comments on Handwriting |
Partly unsteady handwriting. |
Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The text is placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with very broad margins at the sides and on top. At the bottom, only a small margin exists. |
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recto |
verso |
Quantity of Lines |
4 |
0 |
Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) |
53 |
0 |
Column Height (in mm) |
45 |
0 |
Height of Line / Letter |
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Line Distance |
53 x 45 |
0 |
Text Content
Modern Title |
receipt for compulsory labor 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 |
Portis, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the rate for the compulsory labor tax for the 32nd regnal year, in an amount of 0,5 kite. |
Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Gender |
Man |
Text
Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Thus has brought Portis, son of Espmetis, |
2 | | ½ (silver) kite (for) the compulsory labor [for the 32nd regnal year.] |
3 | | Issued by Belles, [son of Stamnaichnoumis.] |
4 | | 32nd regnal year, 11th of Mesore.
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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 |
7650 |
man |
Portis, son of Espmetis |
PꜢ-wr-dı͗w, sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mty |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
32 |
Mesore |
11 |
-253 September 26 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
DatasetID |
307626 |
last Change |
29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos |
81184 |
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 307626 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12464 / 4), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |