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Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12713

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12713
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: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Lower right corner broken off.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Beginning of last line lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 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 bank receipt
Ancient Archives tax collector NN | correspondence archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Patous, son of Petenaibis, is confirmed of having brought to the bank the yoke and nḥṱ.t taxes collected from the people of the town and the people of the field.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nꜣ-hb(.w) dbn 3 ḥḏ qd 4½ wp-st
2nꜣ rmṯ.w n dmy ḥḏ qd 5 nꜣ rmṯ.w (n) tꜣ sḫ.t dbn 2 ḥḏ d 9½
3r-mḥ
4(n) ḥḏ nḥb nḥṱ.t ///.w n ḥsb.t 11
5n-ḏr.t NN/// n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 25
1Thus has brought Patous, son of Petenaibis, 3 deben and 4½ kite. Specification:
2The people from the town: 5 kite; the people form the field: 2 deben and 9½ kite,
3in full,
4as yoke tax and as nḥṱ.t tax and as ⸢///⸣ tax, for the 11th regnal year.
5[Issued by NN]⸢///⸣, in the 12th regnal year, 25th of Thoth.
     
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
36995 man Patous, son of Petenaibis Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-nꜣ-hb(.w) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 12 Thoth "% -236 November 10 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 317949
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 317949 (= Ostr. Torino, Museo Egizio 12713), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.