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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5172

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5172
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Publication Status unpublished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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
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.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with medium margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 28 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 28 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pamenchis, son of Pa..?.. is confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of havind paid the compulsory labor tax for the 35 regnal year in an amount of 1 silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-mnḫ sꜣ Pꜣ- ḥḏ qd 1 (n)ḥḏ ꜥrṱ
2n ḥsb.t 35 ntı͗-ı͗r ḥsb.t 36 n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ
3sꜣ Pꜣ-wpṱ ḥsb.t 35 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 14
1Thus has brought Pamenchis, son of Pa..?.., 1 silver kite for the compulsory labor tax
2for the 35 regnal year which is the 36th. Issued by Schesbet,
3son of Pouoptis. 35th regnal year, 14th of Payni
DAI_O_5172_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38165 man Pamenches, son of Pa]///] Pa-mnḫ sꜢ Pꜣ-[///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 35 Payni 14 -250 July 31 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

DAI_O_5172_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318038
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 318038 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 5172), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.