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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
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 Pictures
1Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr pꜣ nty ḏd
2n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp (ḥḏ) qd 3 5/6(?) (n) nḥḥ
3nꜣy 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
4n-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.
1Petobastis, son of Esyris, is the one who speaks
2to Pachnoumis, son of Imouthes: 3 5/6(?) (silver ) kite (for) oil:
3This is that what you have given (from) the 30th of Pharmouthi until the 30th of Payni.’
4 {Issued by}
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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;

 

Pictures

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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).