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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 343

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 343
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) 57 mm | 69 mm | 10 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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The last line ending is lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide but partly irregular line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd. The lower part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 69 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 69 x 30 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 Peter, son of Pelaias, is confirmed Stamnaichnoumis, son of Thotortaios, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 17th regnal year, in an amount of 2,25 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Belles, son of Harathres.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ptr sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ ḥḏ qd 2¼
2n nḥṱ.t n ḥsb.t 17 n-ḏr.t Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-dı͗-s
3r ḫrw Br sꜣ Ḥr-Ḥṱr 1Reading J. Moje. At the end of the father's name some kind of correction had been made, which is currenty not understandable.n ḥsb.t 17 ı͗bd 3

1 Reading J. Moje. At the end of the father's name some kind of correction had been made, which is currenty not understandable.
convex
1Thus has brought Peter, son of Pelaias, 2¼ silver kite for the
2[nḥṱ.t tax] for the 17th regnal year. Issued by Stamnaichnoumis son of Thot[ortaios].
3[On] declaration of Belles, son of Harathres ..?.., in the 17th regnal year, 3rd month [///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7140 woman Belles, son of Harathres Br sꜢ Ḥr-Ḥṱr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 17 Third Month of ? [///] -269 December 24 BCE -268 September 19 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307252
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49591
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 307252 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 343), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).