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Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 151 [sic, erroneous number]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 151 [sic, erroneous number]
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:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
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
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
Language, additional A (none)
Comments on Text Layout Wide but partly unsteady line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the main part of the potsherd, with a broad margin on top. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 27 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 27 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Nechtes is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 15th regnal year Phaophi in an amount of ¼ kite.
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 Nḫṱ=s ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ
2(n) ḥsb.t 15 ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wy 1There is no third line with sw 1, as Wångstedt suggested.

1 There is no third line with sw 1, as Wångstedt suggested.
1Thus has brought Nachtes ¼ silver (kite) (for) the value (of) the oil
2(for) the 15th regnal year, Phaophi. Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous.
Uppsala_UM_VM0151_S1_0
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9190 man Nechtes Nḫṱ=s pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 15 Phaophi -223 November 15 BCE -223 December 14 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Uppsala_UM_VM0151_S1_0
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307657
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51471
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307657 (= Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 151 [sic, erroneous number]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.