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Ostr. Lost = TM 40240

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Lost = TM 40240
Publication Number SB I 1919
Current Location (unknown)
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status partly 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]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Scheill, Jean Vincent
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (not relevant)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color unknown
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
State of Preservation (unknown)
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome
Script, Primary Demotic
Script, additional A Greek
Language, Primary Demotic
Language, additional A Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting Unknown.
Comments on Text Layout Unknown.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2+x 2
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 0 Unknown
Column Height (in mm) 0 Unknown
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance Unknown Unknown

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pekes, son of Peteirou, and Peteharendotes, son of Petebastis, are confirmed by a person not mentioned in the publication of having paid a rate for an alike unnamed tax type for the 8th regnal year.  Greek subscription, partly unknown, with the name presumably of the tax farmer and the date.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscription, partly unknown, with the name presumably of the tax farmer and the date.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1 ı͗n Pꜣ-ı͗kš sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ı͗r.w Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-nḏ-ı͗tı͗=f 1Scheill gives „Pethormkha-f”. Suggestion made here by J. Moje. sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t
2 ḥsb.t 8 ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw 9

1 Scheill gives „Pethormkha-f”. Suggestion made here by J. Moje.

vso1βουτρος
vso2Παλάιας Πα ∟ η Φ
1Thus have brought Pekes, son of Peteirou, and Peteharendotes, son of Petebastis, ..?..
2..?.. 8th regnal year, 9th of Phamenoth.
concave

vso1[///]Boutros ..?..
vso2Pelaia[s], son of Pa[///]. 8th regnal year, [9th] of Ph[amenoth].
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8855 man Pekes, son of Peteirou Pꜣ-ỉkš sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏỉ-ỉr.w pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty or Roman Period -332 BCE 211 CE Exact date currently unknown.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307633
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 40240
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 307633 (= Ostr. Lost = TM 40240), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).