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Abstract
The study concerns publishing 150 demotic ostraca from Medinet Habu in the Egyptian museum in Cairo, which bear SR.18952, they are kept in the third floor p.23 East, and all are potsherds. One has a Greek docket, nr.23.
This collection is a part of the Oriental Institute’s 1929/30 season of excavation at Medinet Habu which started in 1924 under the supervision of James Henry Breasted until 1933 as the hole site was excavated.
The variety of the subjects is considered to give a true mirror of the social and economical life in Egypt throughout the Greco-Roman Period. No information about the date. In general, The internal evidence and the parallel texts in the previous studies helped in general to determine the date of the ostraca.
The study is divided in six chapters:
Chapter one: Taxes and various receipts which contain 65 tax receipts of various kind of taxes, as on NHb-tax, poll-tax, Bath-tax, Apomoira-tax and so on giving information about the system and the types of the taxes in the Greco-Roman Period.
Chapter two: 48 ostraca deal with reminders and accounts, there are 4 types of accounts: money accounts, grain accounts, accounts of liquids, and unidentified accounts.
Chapter three: contains 14 ostraca represent Lists of Personal Names.
- Chapter four: 15 ostraca concerning letters.
- Chapter five: The temple oath contains 4 ostraca. They tackled different matters as accusations related to payments of money.
- Chapter six: 4 ostraca are Unidentified texts, as it is difficult to obtain their nature because the headings and large parts of them are missing.
At the end of the thesis came the conclusions of the study, which spots light on the daily life of the Egyptians throughout the Greco-Roman Period.