Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 408

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 408
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, dark brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	67 mm \| 74 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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small but uneven margins at the lateral sides. On top and at the bottom, there are a slightly broader margins. The rest of the line 4 was not written.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	71	0
Column Height (in mm)	50	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	71 x 50	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petobastis, son of Esyris
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Imouthes, is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esouris, of having paid the price of oil for Pharmouthi and Payni, in an amount of 3 5/6(?) kite. An additional remark "sẖ NN" at the end of the text is not necessary on documents of the type "NN1 pꜢ nty ḏd n NN2". The final sign seems to be just an error by practice.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr pꜣ nty ḏd
2	n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp (ḥḏ) qd 3 5/6(?) (n) nḥḥ
3	nꜣy r.ḏı͗=k ¹Corrected transkription according to Vleeming, Sven P., 1994. Ostraka Varia. Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, Chiefly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, from Various Collections, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 26, Leiden, 29 note nn. (n) ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw ꜥrqı͗ r ı͗bd 2 šmw sw ꜥrqı͗
4	n-ḏr.t ²An additional remark "n-ḏr-t NN" at the end of the text is not necessary on documents of the type "NN1 pꜣ nty ḏd n NN2". The final sign seems to be just an error by practice. On ODL 931 a countersigner was given at the end, not an issuer.

¹ Corrected transkription according to Vleeming, Sven P., 1994. Ostraka Varia. Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, Chiefly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, from Various Collections, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 26, Leiden, 29 note nn.
² An additional remark "n-ḏr-t NN" at the end of the text is not necessary on documents of the type "NN1 pꜣ nty ḏd n NN2". The final sign seems to be just an error by practice. On ODL 931 a countersigner was given at the end, not an issuer.

1	Petobastis, son of Esyris, is the one who speaks
2	to Pachnoumis, son of Imouthes: 3 5/6(?) (silver ) kite (for) oil:
3	This is that what you have given (from) the 30th of Pharmouthi until the 30th of Payni.’
4	{Issued by}

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
430	man	Pachnoumis, son of Imouthes	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Ỉy-m-ḥtp	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos				-285 BCE -246 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307221
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49604
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 307221 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 408), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).