Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 54

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Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 54
Publication Number	O. Louvre 54
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	55 mm \| 48 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

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 was placed centered onto the upper three-fourth of the potsherd, the line beginnings are closed to the right rim. The lower fourth remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	48	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	48 x 55	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Month⸢///⸣
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tayris, wife of Peteyris, is confirmed by Mont⸢///⸣ of having paid the salt tax for the 18th 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: wife of a man

Transcription

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1	ı͗n Ta-ḥr tꜣ rmṯ.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr
2	ḏbꜥ.t 1.t½ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 18 n-ḏr.t
3	Mnṯ-/// ḥsb.t 19
4	sẖ 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.

1	Thus has brought Tayris, the wife of Peteyris,
2	1½ [obols] for the salt tax for the 18th regnal year. Issued by
3	Month-⸢///⸣ . 19th regnal year.
4	[///] Countersigned by Schemsbet.

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

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	19			-229 October 15 BCE -228 October 14 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307260
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49615
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307260 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 54), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.