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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 775

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 775
Publication Number O. Louvre
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) 39 mm | 75 mm | 13 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, slightly damaged at the left side.
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) The ending of l. 2 is faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margin at all sides. The lines beginnings are geared to the outline shape of the rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 88 0
Column Height (in mm) 41 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 88+y x 41 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 Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the price of oil for the 21st regnal year Payni, 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
1ı͗n Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm 1Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 87, pl. LXIV no. 775 suggests here for the father’s name Pa-H̱nm, which can now be confirmed by infra-red image.
2ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) nḥḥ (n) ḥsb.t 21.t ı͗bd 2 šmw
3n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

1 Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 87, pl. LXIV no. 775 suggests here for the father’s name Pa-H̱nm, which can now be confirmed by infra-red image.
1Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis,
2¼ silver (kite) (for) oil (for) the 21st regnal year, Payni.
3Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6730 man Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 21 Payni -226 March 14 BCE -226 April 12 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307218
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55580
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 307218 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 775), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).