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Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 1808

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 1808
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Publication Status unpublished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 archaeological excavation
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

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) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 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 salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Tathothes, daughter of Pibastis, is confirmed by Orseus, son of Imouthes, of having paid the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year in an amount of ½ 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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.ı͗n Ta-Ḏḥwtı͗ ta Pꜣy-Bꜣst.t ꜥꜣ.t ḥḏ qd ½
2(n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 23 n-ḏr.t Wrše
3sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥsb.t 24 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 11

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Tathotes, daughter of Pibastis Senior, ½ kite
2(for) the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year. Issued by Orseus,
3son of Imouthes. 24th regnal year, 11th of Thoth.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
35835 woman Tathothes, daughter of Pibastis Ta-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Pꜣy-Bꜣst.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 24 Thoth 11 -262 November 3 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317934
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 317934 (= Ostr. Elephantine,excavation SwissInst Ω 1808), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.