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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4232

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4232
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Publication Status unpublished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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small lateral and broad upper and lower margins. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 23 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 x 23 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 Espmetis, son of Belles, is confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 38th regnal year in an amount of 1 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Br ḥḏ qd 1
2n ḥḏ ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 38 n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ
3sꜣ Pꜣ-wpṱ n ḥsb.t 38 ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 12
1Thus has brought Espmetis, son of Belles, 1 kite
2for the compulsory labor tax for the 38th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet,
3son of Pouoptis, in the 38th regnal year, 12th of Mecheir.
DAI_O_4232_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11545 man Espmetis, son of Belles and of his mother Tiys Ns-pꜢ-mty sꜢ Br, Σμητ Βελλῆτος pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 38 Mecheir 12 -247 March 30 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

DAI_O_4232_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318045
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 318045 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4232), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.