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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 14126 |
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 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 Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for nḥṱ.t tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
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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 |
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; |
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. |