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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 43

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 43
Publication Number O. Louvre 43
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) 71 mm | 105 mm | 11 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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete. The signs are partly faded, but still legible.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed in the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small and unequal margins. On top, there is a slightly broader margin. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80 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 Thotmais, son of Pasounet, is confirmed by a Espmetis, son of Petechonsis, of having paid the price of oil for the 11th regnal year Epeiph, in an amount of 0,5 kite. Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophachtes, who is known as an issuer of several tax receipt in Elephantine.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḏḥwti-m-ḥb sꜣ Pa-swn.t (ḥḏ) qd ½ (n) swn (n) nḥḥ
2(n) ı͗bd 3 šmw n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mty sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḫnsw ḥsb.t 11 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw ꜥrqi
3sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
1Thus has brought Thotmais, son of Pasounet, ½ (silver) kite (for) the value (for) oil
2(for) Epeiph. Issued by Espmetis, son of Petechonsis. 11th regnal year, 30th of Epeiph.
3Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_43_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
1785 man Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes PꜢ-ḥtr sꜢ Ḥr-tꜢy=f-nḫt pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 11 Epeiph 30 -236 September 11 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_43_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307209
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55572
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 307209 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 43), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).