Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 141

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 141
Publication Number	O. Louvre 141 / SB XVI 12877
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, dark brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	58 mm \| 85 mm \| 11 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The right part os lost today.
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 endings of the first two 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. Theleft-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd. On top and at the left side, there are margins. At the bottom, the text comes up very closely to the rim.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	74	0
Column Height (in mm)	45	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	74+y x 45	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Asklepiades (ODL 141) Imouthes, son of Esyris Shemsbet
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], daughter of Peteyris, is confirmed by Imouthes, son of Esyris, of having paid the salt tax for the 16th regnal year, in an amount of ¼ kite. 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 Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n ta ¹Reading Jan Moje, according to infra-red image. Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr ḥḏ qd ²In the publiccation the amount ws reads as ⅓, but an examination of the pieces and via an infra-red image shows that here the elaborated form of ¼ with three strokes was used, with the bended stroke above the ʮ-shaped basis sign.
2	n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 16 ³The number 6 from ḥsb.t 16 is partly faded but visible. Devauchellle gives only „..“.n-ḏr.t I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
3	ḥsb.t 16 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 11 sẖ Šmsbṱ ⁴For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 227. Cf. also A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 438.

¹ Reading Jan Moje, according to infra-red image.
² In the publiccation the amount ws reads as ⅓, but an examination of the pieces and via an infra-red image shows that here the elaborated form of ¼ with three strokes was used, with the bended stroke above the ʮ-shaped basis sign.
³ The number 6 from ḥsb.t 16 is partly faded but visible. Devauchellle gives only „..“.
⁴ For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 227. Cf. also A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 438.

convex

4	ἔγραψεν Ἀσκληπιά-
5	-δης

convex

1	[Thus has brought ///], daughter of Peteyris, ¼ silver kite
2	[for the salt tax for the 16th regnal year]. Issued by Imouthes, son of Esyris.
3	16th [regnal year], 11th of Epeiph. Countersigned by Schemsbet.

convex

4| Thus has signed Asklepia- 5| -des.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7335	man	Asklepiades (ODL 141)	Ἀσκληπίαδης (ODL 141)	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	16	Epeiph	11	-231 August 22 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307270
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4188
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 307270 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 141), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).