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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 46

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 87 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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-w ta Pa Ḏḥwti
2 1D. Devaucvhelle read here ḥnꜥ Pꜣ-šr-I͗mn, but due to the amount only one woman should be activce as payer. ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) pꜣ dnı͗ (n) ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 1 2D. Devauchelle reads in L. 2 ḥsb.t 4, in l. 3 ḥsb.t 3. n-ḏr.t
3Šsbṱ 3For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 227. n ḥsb.t 2 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 24
4sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t sꜣ Pa-H̱nm

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.
convex
1Thus has brought Ta-..?.., daughter of Pathotes,
2..?.. ¼ silver (kite) (for) the salt tax for the 1st regnal year. Issued by
3Schesbet in the 2nd regnal year, 24th of Mesore.
4Countersigned by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_46_S1
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_46_IR
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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).