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Collection | Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 262 |
Publication Number | O. Louvre |
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 |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, ochre |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 43 mm | 94 mm | 8 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 | Exterior 2 l. Wide pitch. The right aligned text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad and equal margins on the lateral sides. The bottom left part remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 2 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 30 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+75 x 30 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for compulsory labor tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Pmenches, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Belles of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 34th regnal year, in an amount of [1 kite?]. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 Restauration according to D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 33, pl. XXXVI no. 262. 2 Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 435. 3 Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 435. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
6930 | man | Pmenches, son of Espmetis | Pa-mnḫ sꜢ Ns-mꜢ-mty | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 34 | Payni | 22 | -251 April 8 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307225 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 49564 |
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 307225 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 262), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |