Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 56

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 56
Publication Number	O. Louvre 56
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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

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	Wide pitch. The text was placed onto the upper part of the surface of the potsherd, with a very small margin on top. It is right-aligned, while the line endings are geared to the outline shape of the sherd and are close to the rim. The crotch at the bottom remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	85	0
Column Height (in mm)	45	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	85 x 45	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax and receipt for compulsory labor tax
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	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the compulsory labor tax together with the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite and 1/3 kite respectively. Countersigned by Potemetous, son of Psentotoes.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ¹Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 32-33, pl. XIII no. 56 suggest a title here, although the reading remains doubtful.
2	(n) ḥḏ ꜥrṱ ḥḏ qd 1 (n) ḥḏ (n) ḥmꜣ ḥḏ (qd) ⅓ (n) ḥsb.t 23
3	n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wy ḥsb.t 23 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 2
4	sẖ Pꜣ-wḏꜣ-mtw=s (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-Twtw

¹ Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 32-33, pl. XIII no. 56 suggest a title here, although the reading remains doubtful.

convex

1	Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis ..?..
2	(for) the compulsory labor tax: 1 silver kite. (For) the salt tax: ⅓ silver (kite), (for) the 23rd regnal year.
3	Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous. 23rd regnal year, 2nd of Pachons.
4	Countersigned by Potemetous, (son) of Psentotes.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6925	man	Potemetous, son of Psentotoes	PꜢ-wḏꜢ-mtw=s sꜢ PꜢ-šr-Twtw	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	23	Pachons	02	-224 June 12 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307224
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49563
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 307224 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 56), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).