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. |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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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 |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Thus has brought Harthotes, son of Pelaias, |
2 | | 4½ silver kite (for) his |
3 | | nḥṱ.t tax for the 12th regnal year. |
4 | | Issued
by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis, |
5 | | in the 13th regnal year, 11th of Paophi.
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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; |
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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. |
