Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 3
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 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, yellowish / burnt |
| 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, only some signs at the line endings are faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Partly unsteady handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Very wide line pitch. The text is placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad margins on top and at the bottom, as well as on the right side. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
2 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
25 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
76 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
25 x 76 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| 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 |
Harpaesis, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 20th regnal year Thoth, in an amount of ⅓ kite. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
1 O. El-Aguizy reads after
ꜣḫ.t the day (sw) ꜥrqı͗, but this is still the end of the month lemma.
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1 | | Thus has brought Harpaesis, son of Pasenis, ⅓ (silver kite) (for) the price of oil |
2 | | (for) the 20th regnal year, Thoth. Issued by Petemestous, 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 |
| 6720 |
man |
Harpaesis, son of Pasenis |
Ḥr-pa-Ꜣs.t sꜢ Pa-sny |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
20 |
Thoth |
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-228 October 15 BCE -228 November 13 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307629 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81192 |
| 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 307629 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
