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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 79

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 79
Publication Number O. Louvre 79
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, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 82 mm | 93 mm | 14 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken at the right side.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The beginnings of the lines 2 - 4 are lost today.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the middle part of the potsherd, with broder margins on top and at the bottom. The line endings are close to the rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 50 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+75 x 50 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 Harpaesis, son of Pay-Hor-pa-..?.., is confirmed by [///], son of Pasenis, of having paid the nḥy.t tax for the 17th regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite. Countersigned by Petepiphis.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣy-Ḥr-pꜣ- (ḥḏ) qd 1
2n nꜣy=f 1Reconstruction by J. Moje. ḥḏ.w (n) nḥṱ.t (n) ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 4 šmw
3n-ḏr.t sꜣ Pa-Sny sẖ 2Devauchelle reads here mı͗-nn „entitled likewise“, but this makes no sense here. His parallels mentioned p. 60 note to l. 3 also show in my opinion not mı͗-nn, but also n-dr.tr or sẖ „Issued/ Countersigned“. Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t 3Reading J. Moje. The publication of Devauchelle gives Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd.
4sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 12

1 Reconstruction by J. Moje.
2 Devauchelle reads here mı͗-nn „entitled likewise“, but this makes no sense here. His parallels mentioned p. 60 note to l. 3 also show in my opinion not mı͗-nn, but also n-dr.tr or sẖ „Issued/ Countersigned“.
3 Reading J. Moje. The publication of Devauchelle gives Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd.
1Thus has brought Harpaesis, son of Pay-Hor-pa-..?.. of 1 (silver) kite
2[for his] nḥṱ.t tax for the 17th regnal year, Mesore.
3[Issued by ///], son of Pasenis. Countersigned by Petepiphis,
4[son of Pachnoumis, in the] 17th [regnal year] 12th of Mesore.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_79_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7120 man Harpaesis, son of Pay-Hor-pa-..?.. Ḥr-pa-Ꜣs.t sꜢ PꜢy-Ḥr-pꜢ..?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 17 Mesore 12 -268 October 1 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307249
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49588
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 307249 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 79), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).