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Ostr. Orléans, Musée historique et archeologique Orléanais 12786-D-15

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Orléans, Musée historique et archeologique Orléanais 12786-D-15
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery (unknown)
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1953 and 1953
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Baillet, Jules
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete
Mounting (non [ostracon])

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 Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right aligned columns are placed centered onto the potsherd, with larger upper and left margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 0
Column Height (in mm) 64 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85 x 64 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Espmetis, son of Hierax, is confirmed of having paid the poll tax for the 10th regnal year in an amount of 4 stater.
Location of Composition Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1r.wṱ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Hyrgs
2ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ n ꜥpe n ḥs.t 10 Tbwrys
3????Gysrs Sbsṱs
4ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 19 sttr 4
1That which was paid cash by Espmetis, son of Hierax,
2for the poll tax for the 10th regnal year of Tiberius
3Caesar Augustus,
419th of Mesore: 4 stater.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
34530 man Espmetis, son of Hierax Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Hyrgs pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 10 Mesore 19 24 August 10 CE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317154
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 317154 (= Ostr. Orléans, Musée historique et archeologique Orléanais 12786-D-15), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.