Ostr. London, BM EA 12168
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Metadata
Collection
| 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 |
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] |
| 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
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Dating of Object |
Graeco-Roman |
| Dating |
between -255 and |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
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 |
| 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 |
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| Line Distance |
79 x 30 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt 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 |
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 |
Text
People mentioned in Text
| 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 |
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Dates
| 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; |
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Literature
| 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). |
