Receipt for price of oil
APIS
chicago.apis.8217
(ICU)8217
O. OIM 19335
Catalogue no. 42; Nelson collection no. N302. On the recto, 1/12 silver (kite) or 1 obol + 1/6 silver (kite) or 2 obols = 1/4 silver (kite) or 3 obols. This is the price of 1/2 kotule or 0.14 liter + 1 kotule or 0.27 liter = 1 1/2 kotulai or 0.41 liter of oil. On recto and verso, a total of 5 obols were paid for 2 1/2 kotulai or 0.68 liter of oil. The scribe Esminis was responsible for many other price of oil receipts from Thebes between years 30 and 38 of Ptolemy II. (See additional OIM ostraca.)
Location: Oriental Institute
Pub. status: Published: recto and verso
Demotic
Ostracon ; 5.3 x 5.7 cm
On recto: 4 lines in Demotic; on verso: 2 lines in Demotic
Source of description: On recto and verso: receipt
December 30, 251 B.C.
Thebes (?)
Hatres, son of Parates
Esminis
Thebes (?)
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English
Demotic
Receipts
Oil
Documentary
Ostracon
OIM 19335, recto: (1) Hatres son of Parates, 1/4 silver (kite) for (2) the price of oil, specification: Thoth, (3) 1/12 silver (kite), Phaophi, 1/6 silver (kite), has written Es(4)minis (on) Egyptian year 36, Hathyr 7. OIM 19335, verso: (1) Hathyr 12, 1/6 silver (kite), (2) has written Esminis (on) Egyptian year 36, Hathyr 12.