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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 6

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 6
Publication Number O. Louvre 6
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, grey brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 67 mm | 71 mm | 7 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, some signs faded. The line endings remain somewhat unclar.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Small but inequal line pitch. The text was placed centerd on the surface of the potsherd, with a somewhat broader margin at the botton, only occupied by the distended sẖ sign of the last line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 57 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60+y x 57 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Herieus(?), son of Pabastis, and his sister Tatous are confirmed by Phatres (who is known from other sources to be son of Hartophnachthes), of having paid the price of oil for the 20th regnal year in an amount of ½ silver kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: sister of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Additions (filiation, line 2, by J. Mojeı͗n Hry=w(?) sꜣ Pa-Bꜣst.t
2ḥnꜥ Ta-tꜣ.wı͗ tꜣ sn.t ḥḏ qd ½
3(n) nḥḥ (n) ḥsb.t 20.t ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 2
4n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr

1 Additions (filiation, line 2, by J. Moje
1Thus has brought Herieus(?), son of Pabastis,
2and Tatous, ..?.. the sister, ½ silver kite
3(for) oil (for) the 20th regnal year, 2nd of Epeiph.
4Issued by Phatres.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_6_S1_
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6735 man Herieus, son of Pabastis Hrỉ=w sꜣ Pa-Bꜣst.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 20 Epeiph 02 -227 August 12 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_6_S1_
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307191
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55552
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307191 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 6), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.