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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 9

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 9
Publication Number O. Louvre 9
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, whitish
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 77 mm | 90 mm | 13 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.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Rather wide line pitch. The complete text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with broader bur inequal margins at the sides. The lower third of the surface remains uninecribed, except for the distended sẖ sign of the last line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 64 0
Column Height (in mm) 45 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 64 x 45 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 Petobastis, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil for the 16th regnal year Mecheir in an amount of 2 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
2(ḥḏ) qd 2 (n) swn (n) nḥḥ (n) ḥsb.t 16
3ı͗bd 2 pr.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
1Thus has brought Petobastis, son of Pachnoumis
22 (silver) kite (for) the value (of) oil (for) the 16th regnal year,
3Mecheir. Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_9_S1_
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6755 man Petobastis, son of Pachnoumis PꜢ-ḏỉ-BꜢst.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 16 Mecheir -231 March 15 BCE -231 April 13 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_9_S1_
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307193
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55554
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307193 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 9), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.