Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 60

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 60
Publication Number	O. Louvre 60 / SB XVI 12873
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

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, especially at the endings of all demotic lines.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Small line pitch. The text covers the entire surface of the potsherd, only on top there is a small strip margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	90	0
Column Height (in mm)	50	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+90 x 50	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Psenyris Schesbet, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Thotmaa is confirmed by Schesbet of having paid the salt tax for the 38th regnal year, in an lost amount. Greek notification of the tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part and repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency of 2 Chalkoi. Thotmais, son of Pete-..?.., and his wife Tayger are confirmed by Schesbet of having paid the salt tax for the 38th regnal year, in an lost amount.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek notification of the tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part and repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency of 2 Chalkoi.
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: wife of a man

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1	ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ
2	n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ 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. ḥsb.t 38 ı͗bd 3

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.

3	δια Ψενυρ ἁλικῆς ɀ

4	ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-m-ḥb (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗- ḥnꜥ Tꜣy-gr tꜣy=f rmṯ.t
5	n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 38 n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ 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. ḥsb.t 38 ı͗bd 3

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 Thotmaa [///]
2	Issued by Schesbet. 38th regnal year, 3rd month [///]
3	By Psenyris. For the salt tax: 2 chalkoi.
4	Thus have brought Thotmais, son of Pete-..?.., and Tayger, his wife, [///]
5	for the salt tax (for) the 38th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet. 38th regnal year, 3rd month [///]

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7280	man	Psenyris	Ψενυρ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	38	Third Month of ?		-248 October 20 BCE -247 October 19 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307264
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4184
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307264 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 60), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).