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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4706

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4706
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Publication Status unpublished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.q
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the left half of the potsherd, with small lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 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 yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Qerati, son of Stamnaichnoumis, is confirmed by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis, of ahving paid the yoke tax for the 14th regnal year in amount of 8 silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
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1ı͗n Qrꜥṱ sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ḥḏ qd 8
2r sttr 4 r ḥḏ qd 8 ꜥn n ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 14
3n-ḏr.t Pa-sny sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ///
4n ḥsb.t 14 ı͗bd 2 pr.t(?) sw 2(?)
1Thus has brought Qerati, son of Stamnaichnoumis, 8 silver kite,
2yields 4 stater, yields 8 silver kite again, for the yoke tax for the 14th regnal year.
3Issued by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis ⸢..?..⸣⸢///⸣
4in the 14 the regnal year 2nd(?) of Mecheir(?).
DAIK_O_4706_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
38525 man Qerati, son of Stamnaichnoumis Qrꜥṱ sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 14 Mecheir 02 -271 March 26 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O_4706_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318073
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 318073 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4706), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.