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Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24275

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24275
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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	find (unspecified) Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Wilson, Robert Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Wilson, Robert Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete
Comments on Object	Ostrakon in red pottery, mentions areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government Collector's note hand-written in ink on back: 'Tax Receipt from Thebes Jany 1891' - Acc. to inv. book 75x65 mm

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)	Some signs partly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the lower part of the potsherd, without lateral margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	37	0
Column Height (in mm)	54	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	37 x 54	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harmachis, son of Petamounis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Stamnaichnoumis, daughter of Demokrates, is confirmed by Harmachis, son of Petamunis, of having paid the salt tax for the 10th regnal year in an amount of ¼ silver kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.ı͗n Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ta Tmgrts
2	ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 10 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-m-ḫy
3	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn n ḥsb.t 9 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 2

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, daughter of Demokrates,
2	¼ silver kite for the salt tax for the 10th regnal year. Issued by Harmachis,
3	son of Petamounis, in the 9th regnal year, 2nd of Payni.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
19310	woman	Stamnaichnoumis, daughter of Demokrates	Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ta Tmgrts	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	09	Payni	02	-238 July 16 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	309380
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309380 (= Ostr. Aberdeen ABDUA 24275), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.