Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 264

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 264
Publication Number	O. Louvre 264
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, ochre-gelb
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	60 mm \| 82 mm \| 8 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
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
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide but partly unsteady line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd. The upper and the lower right crotches remain unnscribed. The last line with the second countersigner beginns approximately in the midth.
	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 x 45	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Schesbet, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Taubastis, daughter of Iuef-di-en-i-anch, is confirmed by Schesbet (who is known from other sources as beeing son of Pouoptis), of having paid the salt tax for the 37th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Countersigned by Petobastis, son of Esyris, and Patous, son of Psenpoeris.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
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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convex

1	ı͗n Ta-Bꜣst.t ta I͗w=f-ḏı͗-n=y-ꜥnḫ
2	ḥḏ qd ¼ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 37 n-ḏr.t ¹Cf. for a reading m-sẖ provided in A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 438. Šsbṱ ²For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 227
3a	n ḥsb.t 37 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 29
3b	sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
4	sẖ Pa-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr

¹ Cf. for a reading m-sẖ provided in A. A. Den Brinker - B. Muhs - S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Leuven 2005 (Studia Demotica 7 A-B), 438.
² For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 227

convex

1	Thus has brought Taubastis, daughter of Iu-ef-di-en-i-anch,
2	an amount of money of ¼ (kite) (for) the salt tax (for) the 37th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet
3a	in the 37th regnal year, 29th of Epeiph.
3b	Countersigned by Petobastis, son of Esyris.
4	Countersigned by Patous, son of Psenpoeris.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7375	man	Patous, son of Psenpoeris	Pa-tꜢ.wỉ sꜢ PꜢ-šr-pꜢ-wr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	37	Epeiph	29	-248 September 13 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307272
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49619
Author	Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307272 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 264), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).