Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 953

Inventory Number	Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 953
Publication Number	O.Bodl. I 361
Current Location	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (transferred to the museum in 1947 for permanent deposit)
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	partly published

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)	(unknown) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	ink faded
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Specialities in Writing Direction	l. 1-3 demotic l. 4-5 greek
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, 3rd cent BCE
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral and broad upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	85	0
Column Height (in mm)	46	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	85 x 46	0

Modern Title	Notification of taxable land on basis of the land survey
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Hermophilos praktor Psenpelaias ( Bodl 953)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Notification by Psempmous to Psenchnoumis, son of [///], of taxable land on basis of the land survey, and the amount to be paid in wheat and barley. l. 4-5 Greek subscription of Hermophilos: notification of the size of the taxable land and the tax amount to be paid
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription mentioning the different grain types with their amounts in artabas.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	1-3 demotic new corr. l. 4-5 greek
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	r.ı͗n=w (n) ı͗w-(n-)-ḫy (n) Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm sꜣ
2	pꜣ šmw (n) ḥsb.t 9 sw stꜣ ¼ ///
3	n-dr.t Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mw.t ḥsb.t 9 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 29

convex

4	Ἑρμόφιλος ἀ̣ν̣(αφέρειν) ¹ed. ερ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣υ (ἀρούρης) δ΄ ις΄΄ (πυρῶν ἀρτάβην) α ιβ´´
5	καὶ κριθῶν α ∠ γ΄ ²ed. καὶ κρό̣τ̣ω̣νω̣ς α ∠ γ´

¹ ed. ερ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣φ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣υ
² ed. καὶ κρό̣τ̣ω̣νω̣ς α ∠ γ´

convex

1	To be brought as receipt of measurement of Psenchnoumis, son of ..?..
2	the harvest tax of the 9th regnal year wheat: ¼ aruras ⸢///⸣.
3	Issued by Psenpmous. 9th regnal year, 29th of Payni.
4	Hermophilos. To be noted: 1/4 + 1/16 aroura: of wheat 1 (artaba) and 1/12
5	and of barley 1 + 1/2 + 1/3.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8285	man	Hermophilos praktor	Hrmwphıls Ἑρμόφιλος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	09	Payni	29	-238 August 12 BCE	;

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DatasetID	307637
last Change	17.08.2022
Trismegistos	50291
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bodl;1;361
Author	Jan Moje, Sandra Lippert (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307637 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Eg. Inscr. 953), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje, Sandra Lippert (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography).