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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4635

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4635
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Publication Status unpublished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.

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, some signs are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with medium margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pathotes, son of Orseus, is confirmed by Chnoumorchois of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 11th regnal year in an amout of ⅓ 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-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Wrše(?)
2ḥḏ qd ⅓ n ḥḏ nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 11(?)
3ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 10 n-ḏr.t H̱nm-ı͗r-rḫ-s(?)
1Thus has brought Pathotes, son of Orseus(?),
2⅓ silver kite for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 11th(?) regnal year,
310th of Hathyr. Issued by Chnoum[orchois(?)]
DAIK_O_4635_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38435 man Pathotes, son of Orseus(?) Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Wrše(?) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 11 Hathyr 10 -274 January 4 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4635_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318064
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 318064 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4635), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.