Tablet London, BM EA 29518
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Tablet London, BM EA 29518 |
| 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 1875 and 1875 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Rev Greville John Chester
Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) |
Junker, Hermann
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
tablet |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
one-sided |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
The script is heavily faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle to Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic - Roman Demotic |
| Language, additional A |
(none) |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Irregular and elusive handwriting, with different thicknesses of the reed. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Narrow bad irregular line pitch.
The text covers nearly the entire surface of the tablet, without a margin on the right. the left side is ragged. The first line is placed directly below the hole in the rounded top. From the photp ther are two more lines detectable, which are not attested in Brunsch's edition |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
12 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt of surcharge 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 |
Receipt concerning payment of the surcharge tax pꜣ wṱ., mentioned in Greek texs as "diagraphómena". Within the damaged lines, dates(?) with their payment account are listed. The editor W. Brunsch assumed that this may be the full settlement of a tax farmer. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Ethnicity / Multiculturalism |
Egyptian |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | pꜣ ı͗p /// n pꜣ wṱ n s.t(?)
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2 | | /// 201 211 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 1 |
3 | | /// sw 9 ///
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4 | | ///
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5 | | ///
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6 | | /// šmw sw 1 [_] 2 |
7 | | /// [_] 1 |
8 | | ///
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9 | | sw 14 /// 2 |
10 | | ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 1 [_] 2 |
11 | | ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 20 [_] 1 |
12 | | dmḏ(?)
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13 | | ///
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1 | | The bill ⸢///⸣ of the surcharge tax of ..?.. |
2 | | ⸢///⸣ 201 211, 1st of Epeiph |
3 | | ..?.. 9th day ⸢///⸣ |
4 | | ⸢///⸣ |
5 | | ⸢///⸣ |
6 | | ..?.. 1st day shemu [_] 2 |
7 | | ⸢///⸣ [_] 1 |
8 | | ⸢///⸣ |
9 | | 14th day ⸢///⸣ 2 |
10 | | ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 1 [_] 2 |
11 | | 20th of Pachons [_] 1 |
12 | | Total(?): |
13 | | ⸢////⸣
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 3560 |
(unknown) |
(Unknown [lost]) |
(Unknown [lost]) |
(none) |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty |
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-332 BCE -30 BCE |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307667 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
51859 |
| Author |
Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307667 (= Tablet London, BM EA 29518), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
