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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 120

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 120
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, light red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 59 mm | 57 mm | 8 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) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but partly irregular line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small uninscribed spaces on top and at the upper left corner.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 49 0
Column Height (in mm) 45 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 49 x 45 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 Patous, son of Teos, is confirmed Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥy.t tax for the 19th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite = 1,5 obols.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Ḏd-ḥr ḥḏ qd ¼
2tꜣy=f pš .t 1Transkription and translation of this unusual passage according to D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 61-62, pl. XXVIII no. 120, possibly due to awkwardness of the scribe. Also the missing of the qd as well as of ḥḏ is unusual.ḏbꜥ.t 1½ r ḥḏ qd ¼ ꜥn
3 n ḥḏ nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 19
4n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s
5ḥsb.t 20 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 23

1 Transkription and translation of this unusual passage according to D. Devauchelle, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Cairo 1983 (BdÉ 92) (= O. Louvre), 61-62, pl. XXVIII no. 120, possibly due to awkwardness of the scribe. Also the missing of the qd as well as of ḥḏ is unusual.
convex
1Thus has brought Patous, son of Teos, ¼ silver kite,
2his half is 1½ obols, yields ¼ silver kite again,
3(for) the nḥṱ.t tax (for) the 19th regnal year.
4Issued by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios.
520th regnal year, 23rd of Choiak.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7090 man Patous, son of Teos Pa-tꜢ.wỉ sꜢ Ḏd-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 20 Choiak 23 -265 February 14 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307251
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49590
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 307251 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 120), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).