Unpublished Demotic salt Tax Receipts | ||
| Bulletin of the Center Papyrological Studies | ||
| Article 13, Volume 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-11 PDF (3.65 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bcps.2015.17760 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sara Nabil | ||
| Faculty of Arts, Ain-Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The texts in the present study are two tax receipts belong to unpublished demotic ostraca kept in the Egyptian museum in Cairo, nothing is known about their provenance or date but from some interior evidences such as the handwriting, and known tax payer and scribes who are mentioned before in another published texts indicate that both texts belong to the early Ptolemaic period and came from Elephantine. The receipts deal with the salt tax, text nr.1 has paid by a woman, and belong to year 29 of Ptolemy II Philadelfos (257 B.C.), while text nr. 2 has paid by a man, and dated to year 6 of Ptolemy III Euergetes I (241 B.C). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| ضريبة الملح; أوستراکا ديموطيقي; اللغة المصرية القديمة | ||
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