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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 284

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 284
Publication Number O. Louvre 284
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, yellow brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 45 mm | 83 mm | 9 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation A small part of the left side is 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 endungs of the lines 1-2 are lost with only some signs.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide, partial uneven line pitch. The right-aligned text covers the complete surface of the landscape format potsherd, with a very small margin at the right side.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 73 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 73+y x 32 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 Tamounis is confirmed by Patous, son of Nektanebtis, of having paid the price of oil for the 6th regnal year, in an amount of 1 obol.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: none

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-I͗mn ḏbꜥ.t 1.t n swn (n) pꜣ nḥḥ
2r.šp=f=s 1This is an correction, where the suffix =s is written directly behind the =f. The latter was written just by habituality (so Devauchelle, Didier. O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 85 no. 284), and was not wiped out. (n) ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n-ḏr.t Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Nḫt-nb=f 2The name of the father was doubtful to Devauchelle, Didier. O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 85, pl. XLII no. 284, who suggests Nḫt or Pa-H̱nm. The latter can be confirmed due to infra-red image.
3n ḥsb.t 6 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 15

1 This is an correction, where the suffix =s is written directly behind the =f. The latter was written just by habituality (so Devauchelle, Didier. O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 85 no. 284), and was not wiped out.
2 The name of the father was doubtful to Devauchelle, Didier. O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 85, pl. XLII no. 284, who suggests Nḫt or Pa-H̱nm. The latter can be confirmed due to infra-red image.
convex
1Thus has brought Tamounis 1 obole (for) the value (for) the(?) oil
2which {he} she has received (for) Hathyr. Issued by Patous, son of Nektanebis,
3 in the 6th regnal year, 15th of Choiak.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6875 woman Tamounis (ODL 284) Ta-Ỉmn pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 06 Choiak 15 -241 January 31 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307214
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55576
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 307214 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 284), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).