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Collection | Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 46 |
Publication Number | O. Louvre 46 |
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, brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 87 mm | 8 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 | Uneven line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with the line beginnings directly closed to the right rim. The lower third remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 68 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 45 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 68 x 45 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Ta-..?.., daughter of Pathotes, is confirmed by Schesbet (TM: Schemsbet) of having paid the salt tax for the 1st regnal year, in an amount of ¼ kite. Countersigned by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer (before the man) - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 D. Devaucvhelle read here ḥnꜥ Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn, but due to the amount only one woman should be activce as payer. 2 D. Devauchelle reads in L. 2 ḥsb.t 4, in l. 3 ḥsb.t 3. 3 For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 227. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1745 | man | Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis | PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος) | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 02 | Mesore | 24 | -245 October 7 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307253 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 49610 |
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 307253 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 46), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |