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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for the price of oil |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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; |
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. |