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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4629

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4629
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Publication Status unpublished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 Lower and lateral parts broken off in undetermined extend.
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
State of Preservation (Text) Lower part and all line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 80 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+80+y x 80 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for a lost tax and for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Psenchnoumis, son of Imouthes, is confirmed of having paid a lost tax and the salt tax for the 16th regnal year in an ymount 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 Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-[ḥtp]
2 n ḥsb.t 16 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥw.tı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
3 šmw sw 11
4ı͗n Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥḏ qd 1 (n ḥḏ) ḥmꜣ
5ḥsb.t 16 n-ḏr.t Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
6
1[Thus has brought] Psenchnoumis, son of Imou[thes ///]
2[///] ⸢..?..⸣ for the 16th regnal year. Issued by Stam[naichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,]
3[///] 11th of ..?..
4[Thus has brought Psenchnoumis], son of Imouthes, 1silver kite for the salt tax
5for the 16th regnal year. Issued by Stamnai[chnoumis]
6[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
DAIK_O_4629_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38395 man Psenchnoumis, son of Imouthes Pꜣ-šr-H̱nm sꜣ Iy-m-ḥtp (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 16 -271 BCE -270 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4629_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318062
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 318062 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4629), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.