Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 47

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 47
Publication Number	O. Louvre 47
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 brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	72 mm \| 61 mm \| 9 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	Narrow line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with the line beginnings and endings directly closed to the right rim. A small strip on top and the lower third remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	55	0
Column Height (in mm)	43	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	55 x 43	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Thotomous, son of Espmetis, his unnamed wife, his female slave Senpelaias and Pesenthotes are confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis of having paid the salt tax for the 16th regnal year, in an amount of 1,5 kite. Countersigned by Schemsbet.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Identifier of woman: wife of a man (without her own name) - Identifier of woman: slave of a man - Activity of woman: tax payer

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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1	ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty ḥnꜥ tꜣy=f rmṯ.t
2	ḥnꜥ Tꜣ-šr.t-pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ tꜣy=f ẖr.t ḥnꜥ Pꜣ-šr-Ḏḥwtı͗
3	pꜣy=f šr ḥḏ qd 1½ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 16 ı͗w=f
4	šsp (n) ı͗p r nꜣ n-ḏr.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t ¹For the reading of the the name cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).
5	sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ sẖ Šmsbṱ ²For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 227.
6	ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 24

¹ For the reading of the the name cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005).
² 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.

1	Have brought Thotomous, son of Espmetis, and his wife,
2	and Senpelaias, his female slave, and Psenthotes,
3	his son, 1½ silver kite for the salt tax for the 16th regnal year. He
4	has credited it for the ..?.. . Issued by Harpaesis,
5	son of Pouoptis. Countersigned by Schemsbet.
6	24th of Payni.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7180	man	Psenthotes, son of Thotomous	PꜢ-šr- Ḏḥwtỉ sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-ms	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	16	Payni	24	-231 August 5 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

Clarysse, Willy & Thompson, D.J., The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again (1995). (227)
Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (103-104, pl. XI no. 47)

DatasetID	307254
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49611
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 307254 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 47), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).