Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 294

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 294
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, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	56 mm \| 71 mm \| 13 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Only a small chip is lost at the upper left edge.
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)	Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper three-fourth of the surface of the potsherd, without margins. The line beginnings and endings are geared to the outline shape of the rim. The lower fourth part remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	85	0
Column Height (in mm)	50	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	85 x 50	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachnoumis, son of Belles
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of Belles, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 12th 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

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1	ı͗n Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
2	ḥḏ qd 1 n pꜣ ḥḏ (n) ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 3 ¹According to Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294. Regularly the formula needs only the year here, presumably just a simple error by inattention.
3	pꜣ šp (n) ı͗p ẖn ḥsb.t 11 ²Transcription of this unique line by Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294. For the interpretation cf. Wångstedt, Sten, 1954. Ausgewählte demotische Ostraka ausder Sammlung des Victoria-Museums zu Uppsala und der Staatlichen Papyrussammlung zu Berlin, Uppsala, 62 – 66 as well as Pestman, Pieter W., Quaegebeur, Jan, Vos, R., 1977 Recueil des Textes démotiques et bilingues, Leiden, 39 :378. n-ḏr.t
4	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Br n ḥsb.t 12
5	ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t sw 5 ³In Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294 the day is given with doubt, but his reading seems to be the best possibility.

¹ According to Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294. Regularly the formula needs only the year here, presumably just a simple error by inattention.
² Transcription of this unique line by Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294. For the interpretation cf. Wångstedt, Sten, 1954. Ausgewählte demotische Ostraka ausder Sammlung des Victoria-Museums zu Uppsala und der Staatlichen Papyrussammlung zu Berlin, Uppsala, 62 – 66 as well as Pestman, Pieter W., Quaegebeur, Jan, Vos, R., 1977 Recueil des Textes démotiques et bilingues, Leiden, 39 :378.
³ In Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 35-36, pl. XLV no. 294 the day is given with doubt, but his reading seems to be the best possibility.

1	Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis,
2	1 silver kite for the compulsory labor tax for the 12th regnal year, {3rd month}
3	the credit advice [according to the] 11th regnal year. Issued by
4	Pachnoumis, son of Belles, in the 12th regnal year, 5\| 5th of Hathyr.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6730	man	Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis	Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-H̱nm	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	12	Hathyr	05	-236 December 20 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (35-36, pl. XLV no. 294)

DatasetID	307229
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55549
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 307229 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 294), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).