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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 290

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 290
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) 72 mm | 71 mm | 11 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide pitch. The text was placed onto nthe upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with a small margin on top. The line beginnings are close to the right rim. The lower half of the sherd remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 25 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+70 x 25 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 Phibis, is confirmed by a person whose name is lost, of having paid the price of oil for a lost date, amount also lost.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-H̱nm (sꜣ) Pa-hbꜣ
2ḥḏ (qd) ⅓ (n) swn1This word, reconstructed by Devauchelle, is clearly visible in the infra-red image. (n) pꜣ nḥḥ pꜣ tgm

1 This word, reconstructed by Devauchelle, is clearly visible in the infra-red image.
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Ph[ibis ///]
2⅓ silver (kite) (for) [the value] (for) the oil, the ricinus oil [///]
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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 -247 BCE -221 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307223
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55583
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307223 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 290), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.