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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 22

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 22
Publication Number O. Louvre 22
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) 62 mm | 73 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation The right side is broken, otherwise 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, only the first sign of the second line is lost.
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 only very small margins at the sides. The lower third of the surface remains uninscribed, 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) 44 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 64 x 44 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 Espmetis, son of Imouthes, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil for the 16th regnal year Pharmouthi 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

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-pꜣ-mtr 1Suggestin jan Moje. In D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 75-76, pl. V no. 22, the name is read as „Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wy(?)“ / Spotous, but cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 436. sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp
2ḏ qd ¼ n nḥḥ n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 4 pr.t
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

1 Suggestin jan Moje. In D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 75-76, pl. V no. 22, the name is read as „Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wy(?)“ / Spotous, but cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 436.
convex
1Thus has brought Espmetis, son of Imouthes,
2¼ silver kite (for) oil (for) the 16th regnal year, Pharmouthi
3Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_22_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6760 man Espmetis, son of Imouthes (ODL 22) Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜢ Ỉy-m-ḥtp pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 16 Pharmuthi -231 May 14 BCE -231 June 12 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_22_S1
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307194
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49598
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307194 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 22), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.