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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 28

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 28
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, grey
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 55 mm | 98 mm | 6 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 are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with only very small margins at the sides and on top. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 102 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 102 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for nḥṱ.t tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Petosiris, son of Totoes, is confirmed by Espmetis, son of Pathotes, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 20th regnal year, in an amount of 1,5 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Harekysis, son of [///].
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ Twtw 1Reading of the name according to Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 436. ḥḏ qd 1½ n nꜣy=f ḥḏ .w n nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 20.t
2ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 22 n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mty sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ n ḥsb.t 21 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 20+x
3r-ḫrw Ḥr-ı͗gš sꜣ ///

1 Reading of the name according to Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 436.
1Thus has brought Petosiris, son of Totoes, 1½ (silver) kite (for) his nḥṱ.t tax for the 20th regnal year,
222nd of Thoth. Issued by Espmetis, son of Pathotes, in the 21st regnal year, 20+xth of Thoth.
3On declaration of Harekysis, son of ⸢///⸣.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_28_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7105 man Harekysis, son of ⸢///⸣ Ḥr-ỉgš sꜢ ⸢///⸣ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 21 Thoth 20+x -265 November 12 BCE -265 November 21 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307248
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49587
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307248 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 28), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).