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Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12689

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12689
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 District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	find (unspecified) 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
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, without lateral margins, but with broad upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	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 nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Haryothes, son of Esminis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Bedja, son of Prahma, is confirmed by Hryothes, son of Esminis, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 8th regnal year in an amount of 2 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Psenchonsis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1	Ḥr-wḏꜣ sꜣ Ns-Mn pꜣ nty ḏd n Bḏꜣ (sꜣ)
2	Pꜣ-rḥmꜣ ḏı͗=k n=y ḥḏ qd 2.t ẖn nꜣy=k ḥḏ.w
3	nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 8 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-šr-Ḫnsw
4	r-ḫrw=f n ḥsb.t 9.t ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 15

1	Haryothes, son of Esminis, is the one who speaks to Bedja, (son)
2	of Prahma: You have given to me 2 silver kite for your
3	nḥṱ.t tax for the 8th regnal year. Isseud by Psenchonsis,
4	on his declaration, in the 9th regnal year, 15th of Choiak.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
36985	man	Bedja, son of of Prahma	Bḏꜣ sꜣ Pꜣ-rḥmꜣ	(not identified)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	09	Choiak	15	-276 February 8 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

Literature

Vleeming, Sven P., Ostraka Varia: Tax receipts and legal documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, chiefly of the early Ptolemaic period, from various collections (1994). (32)

DatasetID	317948
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 317948 (= Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12689), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.