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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 169

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 169
Publication Number O. Louvre 169
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 red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 77 mm | 16 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
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd. Only the crotches top-left and bottom-right remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 54 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 54 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Taimouthes, wife of Espmetis, is confirmed by Pelaias of having paid the salt tax for the 20th regnal year, in an amount of 1,5 obols. Countersigned by Pelaias (who is known from other sources as son of Psenpoeris).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-I͗y-m-ḥtp tꜣ rmṯ.t
2Ns-pꜣ-mty ḏbꜥ.t 1.t½ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
3n ḥsb.t 20.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ 1Reading of the name by Jan Moje, according to infra-red- image. n ḥsb.t. 20.t ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 26
4 sẖ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ 2Devauchelle read Pꜣ-..?.-. ḏbꜥ.t 1.t½

1 Reading of the name by Jan Moje, according to infra-red- image.
2 Devauchelle read Pꜣ-..?.-.
convex
1Thus has brought Taimouthes, wife of
2Espmetis, 1½ (obols for) the salt tax
3for the 20th regnal year. Issued by ..?.. in the 20th regnal year, 26th of Payni.
4Countersigned by Pelaias: 1½ obols.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6850 man Pelaias, son of Psenpoeris PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ PꜢ-šr-pꜢ-wr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 20 Payni 26 -227 August 4 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307271
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55603
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 307271 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 169), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).