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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4448

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4448
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Publication Status unpublished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 incomplete
State of Preservation Left part broken off in undetermined extent.

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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
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 potsherd, without lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 16 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 16+y x 30 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for a lost tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Stamnaichnoumis, son of Teos, is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of Chnoumortaios, of having paid a lost tax for the 6th regnal year in an amount of 8 kỉte.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏd-ḥr ḥḏ qd 8
2r ḥḏ qd 4 r ḥḏ qd 8 ꜥn (n) pꜣy=f ḥḏ n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm
3sꜣ H̱nm.ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s n ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 1 šmw
1Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Teos, 8 kite,
2makes 4 kite, makes 8 kite again, for his tax ⸢..?..⸣. Issued by Pachnoumis,
3son of Chnoumortaios, in the 6th regnal year, [///]th of Pachons.
DAIK_O_4448_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38355 man Stamnaichnoumis, son of Teos Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜢ Hnm.ı.ır-dı-s pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 06 Pachons -279 June 25 BCE -279 July 24 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4448_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318056
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 318056 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4448), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.