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Collection | Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 55 |
Publication Number | O. Louvre 55 |
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, red brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 103 mm | 105 mm | 8 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
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) | Some signs are faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Differing line pitches. The text is spread over the entire surface of the potsherd. The formular tex in 2 lines is given in the upper third, with a broad margin on top. The lines 3 - 4 with the additional countersignatures are written below in the otherwise uninscribed lower part, the first on on the right side below the main text and aligned with it, the second one in the lower left corner. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 90 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 74 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 90 x 74 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Cheredu-anch, daughter of Peteyris, is confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 6th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Countersigned by Parates, son of Payris and Patous, son of Horos. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
7250 | woman | Cheredu-anch, daughter of Peteyris | H̱rd.w-Ꜥnḫ ta PꜢ-ḏı-Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios III Euergetes | 06 | Thoth | 29 | -242 November 16 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307262 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 49616 |
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 307262 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 55), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |