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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.
  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
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
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-wr-tyw sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
2 ḥḏ qd ½ n ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 32
3n-ḏr.t Br sꜣSḏm.n=y-H̱nm
4ḥsb.t 32 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 11
convex
1Thus has brought Portis, son of Espmetis,
2½ (silver) kite (for) the compulsory labor [for the 32nd regnal year.]
3Issued by Belles, [son of Stamnaichnoumis.]
432nd regnal year, 11th of Mesore.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

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

 

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).