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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 38

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 38
Publication Number O. Louvre 38
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, brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 48 mm | 35 mm | 9 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Left part lost.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The endings of all lines are lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text shows small margins on top and at the right side. Below a wider space remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 36 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 36+y x 30 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 Pachnoumis is confirmed by Phatres (who is known from other sources to be son of Hartophnachthes), of having paid the price of oil for a lost month 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
R
1ı͗n Pa-H̱nm
2ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) nḥḥ
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis [///]
2¼ silver (kite) (for) oil [///]
3Issued by Phatres, [son of] Hartophnachthes.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_38_S1
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6805 man Pachnoumis (ODL 38) Pa-H̱nm° pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos -285 BCE -246 BCE Date currently unclear, based on parallels;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_38_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307204
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55565
Author Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307204 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 38), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).