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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4242

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4242
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Publication Status unpublished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 Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the (preserved) ostracon. The lower left crotch remained uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 63 0
Column Height (in mm) 38 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 63 x 38 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 Peteharmais, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Pyrros, son of Harmais, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 6th regnal year in an amount of ½ kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥḏ qd ½
2n ḥḏ ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 6 ntı͗ ı͗r ḥsb.t 7
3n-ḏr.t Pyrw sꜣ Ḥr-m-ḥb n ḥsb.t 6
4ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 12
1Thus has brought Peteharmais, son of Pachnoumis, ½ kite
2for the compulsory labor tax for the 6th regnal year which is the 7th.
3Issued by Pyrros, son of Harmaus, in the 6th regnal year,
412th of Pachons.
DAIK_O_4242_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38235 man Peteharmais, son of Pachnoumis Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-m-ḥb sꜣ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 Pachons 12 -241 June 26 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4242_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318047
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 318047 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4242), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.