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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 902

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 902
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, dark brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 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) Some signs in lines 1 - 2 are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper third of the potsherd, with only very small margins at the sides and on top. The lower two-thirds of the potsherd remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 92 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 92 x 35+y 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 Psenesis, son of Peteminis, is confirmed by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 13th regnal year, in an amount of 2/3 kite. 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
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-šr-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mn ḥḏ (qd) ⅔ n ḥḏ (n) nḥb
2n ḥsb.t 13 1Reading of the date by J. Moje, according to infra-red iamge. n-ḏr.t Ḥr-nfr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty r-ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ
3Pa-Ḥr ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 1 šm1 sw ꜥrqı͗

1 Reading of the date by J. Moje, according to infra-red iamge.
convex
1Thus has brought Psenesis, son of Peteminis, ⅔ silver (kite) for the yoke tax
2for the 13th regnal year. Issued by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis. On declaration of Pachnoumis, son
3of Payris. 13th regnal year, 30th of Pachons.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_902_S
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 13 Pachons 30 -272 July 22 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_902_S
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_902_I
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307243
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49580
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 307243 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 902), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).