Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 944

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 944
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)	58 mm \| 76 mm \| 10,5 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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some signs faded.
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, without margins at the lateral sides, and a broder one with the height of a approximately one line on top. The entire lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	74	0
Column Height (in mm)	21	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	74 x 21	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petemestous, son of Patous
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 13th regnal year Mesore, 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

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1	ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-hbꜣ ḥḏ qd ¼ [///] (n) nḥḥ (?) ¹According to Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 87-88, pl. LXXI no. 944 the reading of the end of line 1 as nḥḥ is more a guess.
2	(n) ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 4 šmw n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wy ²Cf. another reading for the father’s names as I͗tm-ı͗.(ı͗r-dı͗)-s: Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 437.

¹ According to Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 87-88, pl. LXXI no. 944 the reading of the end of line 1 as nḥḥ is more a guess.
² Cf. another reading for the father’s names as I͗tm-ı͗.(ı͗r-dı͗)-s: Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 437.

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, ¼ silver kite [///] (for) oil(?)
2	(for) the 13th regnal year, Mesore. Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6715	man	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	13	Mesore		-234 September 12 BCE -234 October 11 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

den Brinker, Anna Adriana & Muhs, Brian & Vleeming, Sven P., A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (2005). (437 (other reading for the filiation of the scribe, not followed here))
Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (87-88, pl. LXXI no. 944)

DatasetID	307219
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49602
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 307219 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 944), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).