Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 8

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Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 8
Publication Number	O. Louvre 8
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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

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.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Rather wide but partly inequal line pitch. The complete text was placed onto the entire surface of the potsherd, with small and inequal margins at the sides and broader ones on top and at the bottom. The length of the lines follows the curved outline of the sherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	0
Column Height (in mm)	45	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 45	0

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Philon, son of Petosiris, and his wife Teos (sic), daughter of Senpoeris, are confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil for the 17th 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 Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a woman - Identifier of woman: wife of a man - Further: Wife mentioned together not only with her husband, but also with her father

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Pyrn sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r ḥḏ (qd) ¼ ẖr pꜣ
2	swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ r.šp=f (n) ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 2 pr.t ¹It is not clear if after the (more recent?) break of the potsherd a day was once mentioned in Demotic.
3	Ḏd-ḥr tꜣ ms.t Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-wr tꜣy=f rmṯ.t
4	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

¹ It is not clear if after the (more recent?) break of the potsherd a day was once mentioned in Demotic.

1	Thus has brought Philon, son of Petosiris, ¼ silver (kite) for the
2	value (of) the oil, which he has received (for) the 17th regnal year, Mecheir.
3	(Together with?) Teos, the daughter of Senpoeris, his wife.
4	Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6745	man	Philon, son of Petosiris	Pyrn sꜢ PꜢ-ḏỈ-Wsỉr	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	17	Mecheir		-230 March 15 BCE -230 April 13 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307192
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55553
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307192 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 8), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.