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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for nḥṱ.t tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
7105 | man | Harekysis, son of ⸢///⸣ | Ḥr-ỉgš sꜢ ⸢///⸣ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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; |
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). |