Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4694

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Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4694
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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]

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 was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	..?.. is confirmed by Orsenouphis, sonof Pachnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 18th regnal year in an amount of ½ silver kite. The payment was made on declaration of Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n ḥḏ qd ½
2	r sttr ¼ r ḥḏ qd ½ ꜥn n ḥḏ nḥb
3	n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t Wrš-nfr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
4	r-ḫrw Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s
5	n ḥsb.t 19 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 16

1	Thus has brought ..?.. silver kite,
2	yields ¼ stater, yields ½ silver kite again, for the yoke tax
3	for the 18th regnal year. Issued by Orsenouphis, son of Pachnoumis,
4	on declaration of Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios,
5	in the 19th regnal year, 16th of Epeiph.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
5	(unknown)	(Unknown)	(Unknown)	German

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	19			-266 September 5 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318069
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 318069 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4694), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.