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Collection | London, British Museum |
Inventory Number | Ostr. London, BM EA 12168 |
Publication Number | O.Wangstedt (24) 19 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
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] |
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 9 11 1878 and 9 11 1878 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Chester, Greville John Certainty: |
Object Type | ostracon |
Dating of Object | Graeco-Roman |
Dating | between -255 and |
Criteria for Dating | date in text |
Range of Preservation | complete |
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 | |
Script, additional A | Greek | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Language, additional A | Greek, Ancient | |
Comments on Handwriting | Demot. Greek subscript: ptolemaic cursive, hand of Petepiphis | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper part of the potsherd, with a broad upper margin. The left and lower right crotches remain uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3+1 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 79 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 30 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 79 x 30 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Senpelaias, daughter of Pamumen, is confirmed by Eskasothes, son of Nechethor, of having paid the salt tax for the 30th regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Countersigned by Phatres, son of Har[tophnachtes]. Greek subscript of Petepiphis. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscript to Demotic receipt |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | l. 4 new* Greek subscript was not published by Wangstedt! |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Bilingual |
Gender | Woman Man |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: mother of a man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 Reading of the name by Jan Moje. 2 Reading Jan Moje, contra S. Wangstedt, wo read sꜣ sp-2.
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1745 | man | Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis | PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 30 | Payni | 13 | -255 July 31 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 310459 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 51789 |
Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 310459 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 12168), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |