Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 891
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 891 |
| 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, brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
93 mm | 117 mm | 20 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) |
The line endings are faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd, with only very small and irregular margins at the sides. The lower half of the potsherd remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
80 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
33 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
x+80 x 33 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for yoke tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis, of having paid
the yoke tax for the 8th regnal year, in an lost amount. The issuance was made on declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pasenis, 1 silver kite|
2 | | (for) the yoke tax of the 8th regnal year. Issued by Harnouphis, son of Es[pmetis]. |
3 | | On declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris, in the 8th regnal year, [///]th of Phamenoth.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 8370 |
man |
Pachnoumis, son of Payris |
Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Ḥr |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos |
08 |
Phamenoth |
[///] |
-277 April 25 BCE -277 May 24 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307242 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
49579 |
| 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 307242 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 891), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |
