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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 262

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, ochre
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 43 mm | 94 mm | 8 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 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-mḫ sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty ḥḏ qd 1? 1Restauration according to D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 33, pl. XXXVI no. 262.
2 n ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 34 n-ḏr.t Br
3ḥsb.t 34 ı͗bd 2 šmw 23Cf. A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 435. sw 22

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.
convex
1Thus has brought Pamenches, son of Espmetis [an amount of money of 1 kite?]
2(for) the compulsory labor tax (for) the 34th regnal year. Issued by Belles.
334th regnal year, 22nd of Payni.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6930 man Pmenches, son of Espmetis Pa-mnḫ sꜢ Ns-mꜢ-mty pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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).