Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 1
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 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, light red |
| 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 |
Partly unsteady and elusive handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad margins only at the right side and on top. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
75 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
35 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
75 x 35 |
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 |
Espmetis, son of Pmenches, is confirmed by Spotous, son of Petepiphis, of having paid the rate for the compulsory labor tax for the 3rd regnal year, in an amount of 0,5 kite. Countersigned by Pyrros, son of Harmais. |
| 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 Espmetis, son of Pmenches, ½ (silver) kite |
2 | | (for) the compulsory labor for the 3rd regnal year. Issued by Spotous, |
3 | | son of Petepiphis. 3rd regnal year. 18th of Payni. |
4 | | Countersigned by Pyrros, son of Harmais.
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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 |
| 8820 |
man |
Espmetis, son of Pmenches |
Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Pa-mnḫ |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
03 |
Payni |
18 |
-244 August 2 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307627 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81186 |
| 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 307627 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
