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

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Inventory Number	Ostr. Uppsala, Gustavianum VM 151 [sic, erroneous number]
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	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	(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:

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

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petemestous, son of Patous
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

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n 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.

1	Thus 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.

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Places (read out from edition)

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

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;

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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.