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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 68

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 68
Publication Number	O. Louvre 68 / SB XVI 12876
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, brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	58 mm | 80 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)	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	Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with very small margins at the sides and on top. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	5	0
Column Height (in mm)	40	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+5+y x 40	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Patous, son of Horos
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Telilis, daughter of Psenpelaias, is confirmed by Patous, son of Horos, of having paid the salt tax for the 36th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Countersigned by Petobastis, son of Esyris. Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and repetition of the amount in Greek currency.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and repetition of the 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 man

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4290	man	Doros (logeutes)	Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου)	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	36	Pharmuthi	28	-249 June 14 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

• Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (115, pl. XVII no. 68)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Hengstl, Joachim, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Nr. 12220 - 13084) (1988). (no. 12876)

 

DatasetID	307269
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4187
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 307269 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 68), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).