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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 51

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 51
Publication Number O. Louvre 51
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, dark brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 62 mm | 88 mm | 11 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete. Maybe a small part is broken on the left side (Devauchelle).
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 Partly uneven line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, on top there is a small strip in the height of one line remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 75 x 40 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 Chibois, wife of Herieus, is confirmed by Orseus, son of Imouthes, of having paid the salt tax for the 24th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Countersigned by Chnoumortaios, son Pathotes.
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: wife of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Tꜣ-ḫy-b(y)ꜣ.t tꜣ rmṯ.t Hrı͗=w
2ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 24 n-ḏr.t Wrš
3sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp n ḥsb.t 24 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 29
4sẖ H̱nm-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s (sꜣ) Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗
convex
1Thus has brought Chibois, the wife of Herieus,
2¼ silver (kite) (for) the salt tax for the 24th regnal year. Issued by Orseus,
3son of Imouthes, in the 24th regnal year, 29th of Epeiph.
4Countersigned by Chnumortaios, (son) of Pathotes.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_51_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7220 woman Chibois, wife of Herieus TꜢ-ḫy-byꜢ.t rꜢ rmṯ.t Hrỉ=w pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 24 Epeiph 29 -261 September 16 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307258
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55594
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 307258 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 51), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).