Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 5
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 5 |
| Publication Number |
Cairo 12465-5 |
| 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, red 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 |
Partly unsteady handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text is placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with a broad lateral margin on the right side. The lower third of the potsherd remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
40 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
58 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
40 x 58 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for an unnamed 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 |
Peteyris, son of Petetjai, is confirmed by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid montly rates for an unnamed tax for the 18th regnal year, in an amount of 4 1/16 kite. Following is a itemization of payments for single months. |
| 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 Peteyris, son of Petetjai, 4 1/16 (silver) kite. Their specification: |
2 | | 11th of Thoth: 2 ½ kite. 17th of Choiak: 1 ¼ 1/12 kite. |
3 | | Total. |
4 | | Issued by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis. 18th regnal year, 19th of Mecheir.
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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 |
| 8840 |
man |
Peteyris, son of Petetjai |
PꜢ-ḏỉ-Ḥr sꜢ Pꜣ-ḏỉ-ṯꜣy |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
18 |
Mecheir |
19 |
-267 April 11 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307631 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81194 |
| 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 307631 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 5), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
