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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 66

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 66
Publication Number	O. Louvre 66 / SB XVI 12875
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)	68 mm | 78 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken at both sides.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The beginnings and endings of most of the Demotic lines are lost.
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 text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with very small margins at the sides. On top and at the bottom there are slightly broader margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	45	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+70+y x 45	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Imouthes, son of Esyris Praxiades (tax farmer)
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Ephonychos, son of Petearensnouphis, is confirmed by Imouthes, son of Esyris, of having paid the salt tax for the 18th regnal year, in an lost amount. Countersigned by Schemsbet. Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7315	man	Ephonychos, son of Petearensnouphis	Ỉw=f-Ꜥnḫ sꜢ PꜢ-ḏỉ-ỉry-ḥms-nfr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	18	[///]	08	-230 October 16 BCE -229 October 14 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

• Clarysse, Willy & Thompson, D.J., The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again (1995). (227)
• Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (114, pl. XVI no. 66)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Nr. 12220 - 13084) (1988). (no. 12875)

 

DatasetID	307268
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4186
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;14;12875
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 307268 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 66), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).