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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 50

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 50
Publication Number O. Louvre 50
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) 48 mm | 75 mm | 7 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
Script, additional A Greek
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 67 0
Column Height (in mm) 32 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 67 x 32 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 Tachnoumis, daughter of Espmetis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes of having paid the salt tax forthe 33rd regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Greek subscription with repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency. salt tax
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscription with repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual 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-H̱nm ta Ns-pꜣ-mty ḥḏ (qd) ¼
2(n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 33 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
3ḥsb.t 33 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 4
convex
4ἁλικῆς (τριώβολον)
1Thus has brought Tachnoumis, daughter of Espmetis, ¼ silver (kite)
2(for) the salt tax (for) ther 33rd regnal year. Issued by Phatres, (son) of Hartophnachthes,
333rd regnal year, 4th of Epeiph.
4For the salt tax, 3 obols.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_50_S1
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_50_IR
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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 II Philadelphos 33 Epeiph 04 -252 August 20 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_50_S1
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_50_IR
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307257
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55591
Author Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307257 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 50), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).