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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 64

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 64
Publication Number	O. Louvre 64
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)	57 mm | 92 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 complete text was placed rather centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad margins at all sides. The Demotic part is located in the upper half, the Greek part with some distance from it in the otherwise ininscribed lower half.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	82	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	82 x 36	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Obestertais, (daughter) of her mother Esnaibis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the salt tax for the 33rd regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Greek subscription with repetition of tax type and amount in Greek currency, written by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis (by palaeography and text type, without name).
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 woman

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7290	woman	Obestertais, daughter of her mother is Esnaibis	BꜢst.t-ỉ.ỉr-dỉ-s mw.t=s Ns-nꜣ-hb.w	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	33	Pachons	20	-252 July 7 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

• Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (113, pl. XV no. 64)

 

DatasetID	307266
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55601
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 307266 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 64), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).