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Ostr. Hildesheim, Pelizaeus-Museum PM 5876

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Hildesheim, Pelizaeus-Museum PM 5876
Publication Number	Hild. PM 5876
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance Details	unknown
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	(unknown) Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty:
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 1986 and 1986
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Trade: Roswitha Eberwein, Göttingen Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	complete
State 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)	Some signs partly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Small line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a medium right margin. The upper right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax, receipt for salt rax, and receipt for wool tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis ⸢..?..⸣ (Hild 5876, issuer)
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pa-H̱nm ..?.. sꜣ Pa-nꜣ(?) and Peteyris are confirmed by ⸢..?..⸣ of having paid the compulsory labor tax, salt tax, and wool tax for the 30th regnal year in an amount of ½+½ kite. Countersigned by Harpaesis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-nꜣ ḥḏ qd ½ n nꜣy=f
2	ḥḏ ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 30
3	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr [_] ḥḏ qd ½ ẖn pꜣy=f
4	ḥḏ (n) ḥmꜣ dny.t ı͗n.nw n ḥsb.t 30
5	ḥsb.t 30 n-ḏr.t
6	sẖ Ḥr-pꜣ-ꜣs.t

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Pachnoumis ..?.., son of Panas(?): ½ silver kite for his
2	compulsory labor for the regnal year ⸢..?..⸣
3	Peteyris [_]: ½ silver kite for his
4	salt tax (and) wool tax for the 30th regnal year ⸢..?..⸣
5	30th regnal year ⸢..?..⸣ Issued by ..?..⸣.
6	Countersigned by Harpaesis [///].

Hildesheim_RPM_P_5876_

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1025	man	Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis	Ḥr-pa-Ꜣs.t sꜢ PꜢ-wp.ṱ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	30			-256 BCE -255 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

Pictures

Hildesheim_RPM_P_5876_

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	311259
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 311259 (= Ostr. Hildesheim, Pelizaeus-Museum PM 5876), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.