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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 905

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 905
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) 72 mm | 79 mm | 11 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 last line is nearly completely faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-third of the potsherd, with broader margins on top and at the left side. The line beginnings are closed to the right rim. The lower third of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 81 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 81 x 40 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 Imouthes, son of Pasenis, is confirmed by Plous, son of Horos, 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
convex
1ı͗n I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-sny (ḥḏ) qd 2 n pꜣy=f ḥḏ
2(n) nḥb (n) ḥsb.t 13 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 2
3n-ḏr.t Pa-rwꜣ sꜣ Ḥr
1Thus has brought Imouthes, son of Pasenis, 2 (silver) kite for his yoke
2tax (for) the 13th regnal year, 2nd of Choiak(?).
3Issued by Paroua, son of Horos.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7070 man Imouthes, son of Pasenis Ỉy-m-ḥtp sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 13 Choiak 02(?) -272 January 25 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307244
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49581
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 307244 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 905), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).