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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 11

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 11
Publication Number	O. Louvre 11
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, light brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	70 mm \| 80 mm \| 11 mm
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.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed in the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, without margins at the sides. On top, there is a margin with an approximately height of one line.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	0
Column Height (in mm)	28	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 28	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petemestous, son of Patous
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 15th regnal year Mecheir in an amount of 1/4 kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

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Translation

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convex

1	ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-hbꜣ ḥḏ qd ¼ n swn n pꜣ nḥḥ n
2	ḥsb.t 15 ı͗bd 2 pr.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wy

convex

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, ¼ silver (kite) (for) the value of the oil (for)
2	the 15th regnal year, Mecheir. Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous.

Paris_Louvre_ODL_11_S1

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6715	man	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	15	Mecheir		-232 March 15 BCE -232 April 13 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Paris_Louvre_ODL_11_S1

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Literature

Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (74, pl. IV no. 11)

DatasetID	307187
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55555
Author	Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307187 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 11), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).