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Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 1385

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 1385
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]
Type of Discovery (unknown)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left part of the outside is lost
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The line endings are lost. Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A (none)
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the (preserved) potsherd, on the convex as well as on the concave side.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 3
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 60
Column Height (in mm) 60 50
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 60 60 x 50

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Convex: Eschnoumis, son of Pamenis, is confirmed by Plous, son of Horos, of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 12th(?) regnal year, in an lost amount. Concave: Eschnoumis, son of Pamenis (the same person!) is confirmed by Chnoum-..?.. of having paid the rate for the yoke tax for the 12th regnal year, in an lost amount.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism Egyptian
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Mn ḥḏ qd x
2(n) ḥḏ (n) nḥb ı͗bd 1 šmw
3n-ḏr.t Pa-rwꜣ sꜣ Ḥr
concave
vso 1ı͗n Ns-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Mn ḥḏ qd x
vso 2ẖn nꜣ ḥḏ (n) nḥb n ḥsb.t 12
vso 3n-ḏr.t H̱nm- n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 20(?)
1Thus has brought Eschnoumis, son of Pamenis [x silver kite]
2(for) the yoke tax (for?) Pachons.
3Issued by Paroua, son of Horos.
vso 1[Thus has brought] Eschnoumis, son of Pamenis, [x silver kite]
vso 2for the yoke tax for [the 12th regnal year].
vso 3[Issued by] Chnoum-..?.., in the 12th regnal year, 20th(?) of Pachons.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9115 man Eschnoumis, son of Pamenis Ns-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Mn pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 12 Pachons 20(?) -273 July 12 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307654
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 43582
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307654 (= Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 1385), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.