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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 85

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 85
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, pink red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 93 mm | 80 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 Wide but irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-third of the surface of the potsherd, with small and equal margins at the sides. A upper right croch and the lower third part remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Harpaesis, son of Payris, is confirmed by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 13th regnal year, in an amount of 2 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1ı͗n Ḥr-pa-ꜣš.t sꜣ Pa-Ḥr ḥḏ qd 2
2(n) nꜣy=f 1Note that here the plural nꜣy is written instead of pꜣy. ḥḏ (n) nḥb (n) ḥsb.t 13
3n-ḏr.t Pa-sny sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥsb.t 14
4ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 12

1 Note that here the plural nꜣy is written instead of pꜣy.
1Thus has brought Harpaesis, son of Payris, 2 silver kite
2(for) his yoke tax (for) the 3rd regnal year.
3Issued by Pasenis, son of Pachnoumis. 4th regnal year,
412th of Choiak.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7030 man Harpaesis, son of Payris Ḥr-sꜢ-Ꜣs.t sꜢ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 14 Choiak 12 -271 February 4 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307236
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49573
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 307236 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 85), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).