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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 48

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 48
Publication Number O. Louvre 48
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) 55 mm | 88 mm | 6 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 line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a small margin at the right side, the line beginners are geared to the outline shape of the rim. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 83 0
Column Height (in mm) 36 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 83 x 36 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 Taleuis, daughter of Patous is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes of having paid the salt tax for the 23rd regnal year, in an amount of 1,5 obols. Countersigned by Schemsbet.
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 - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-pꜣ-rḥ ta Pa-tꜣ.wy (ḏbꜥ.t) 1.t ½ (n) pꜣ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 23
2n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
3sẖ Šmsbṱ 1For 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 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 Taleuis, daughter of Patous, 1½ (obols) (for) the salt tax (for) the 23rd regnal year.
2Issued by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
3Countersigned by Schemsbet.

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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7165 man Shemsbet Šmsbṱ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 23 -225 BCE -224 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307255
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49612
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 307255 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 48), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).