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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 Reading of the name by Jan Moje, according to infra-red- image. 2 Devauchelle read Pꜣ-..?.-. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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; |
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). |