Ostracon

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Ostracon

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay, Baked

Measurements: 100 x 73 mm

Description: Baked clay ostracon inscribed with five lines of text in black ink in Demotic. The text records the completion of the compulsory labor requirement for Amenothes, son of Psenmonthes.

Region: Upper Egypt: Thebes

Country: Egypt

Place/site: Deir el-Bahri

Place/other: West Bank
Thebes

Locus: --

Period: Ptolemaic

Date: 24 June 243 BC

Culture: Egyptian

Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty

King/Ruler: Ptolemy III

Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

Inscription Language: Demotic

Script: Demotic

Dialect: --

Inscription Description: --

Inscription Subject: Receipt for Compulsory Labor

Inscription Type: Administrative

Inscription Location: Obverse

Translation:

1. Amenothes, son of Psenmonthes, has done(?) (the work of) thirty naubia
2. at the house of rest of the ibis according to
3. Psenthotes and Phentenmous, for whom he acts(?).
4. Signed Psenimouthes(?), son of Esminis
5. [year] 4, Pachons, day 5.

Transliteration One:

1. ı͗r(?) I͗mn-ḥtp sꜢ PꜢ-šr-Mnṱ nb(y) 
2. 30 r pꜢ ʿ.wy ḥtp n pꜢ hb r-ẖ n
3. ˹PꜢ-šr-Ḏḥwty˺ ı͗rm PꜢ-ḥm-nṯr-Mw.t ı͗w=f ı͗r n=w(?) 
4. ˹sẖ PꜢ(?)-šr(?)-I͗y -m-ḥtp˺ sꜢ Ns-Mn
5. ˹ḥsb.t˺ 4 ı͗bt 1 šmw sw 5

Transliteration Two:

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Transliteration Three:

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Registration Number: E19480

Accession Number: 3447

Field Number: --