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Ostr. London, BM EA 14126

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 14126
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 Details (unknown)
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find (unspecified)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rev Greville John Chester
Certainty: high
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 purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 15 6 1876 and 15 106 1876
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rev Greville John Chester
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Junker, Hermann
Certainty: high

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 Handwriting Middle Demotic court hand.
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. On top there is a free strip in the height of approximately one line. The small lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 75 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 75 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Harthotes, son of Pelaias, is confirmed by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the rate for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 12th regnal year in an amount of 4½ kite.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) _x001C_
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism Egyptian
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1ı͗n Ḥr-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
2ḥḏ qd 4½ n nꜣy=f ḥḏ n
3nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 12
4n-ḏr.t Pa-sny sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
5n ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 11
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1Thus has brought Harthotes, son of Pelaias,
24½ silver kite (for) his
3nḥṱ.t tax for the 12th regnal year.
4Issued by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis,
5in the 13th regnal year, 11th of Paophi.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
32475 man Harthotes, son of Pelaias (BM 14126) Ḥr-Ḏḥwtỉ sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ỉḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 13 Phaophi 11 -273 December 5 BCE Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307658
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51683
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307658 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 14126), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.