Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 268

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 268
Publication Number	O. Louvre 268
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, grey red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	58 mm \| 91 mm \| 11 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)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Rather small line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-third of the object, beeing closed to the lateral rims. On top, there is a small margin in the height of approximately one line. The lower third remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	34	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	80 x 34	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	Paes, son of Eschnumpmetis, his unnamed wife, and Snebthys, his daughter, are confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 36th regnal year, in an amount of 1 kite.
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 (without her own name) - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ı͗n Pa-ḥꜣ.t sꜣ Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mty ḥnꜥ
2	tꜣy=f rmṯ.t 8ḥnꜥ) Ns-Nb.t-ḥ.t tꜣy=f šr.t ḥḏ qd 1 r pꜣ ḥmꜣ
3	n ḥsb.t 36 n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ ¹For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 226. sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ ²Devauchelle, Didier, 1983. Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Bibliothèque d’Étude 92, Cairo, 118, pl. XXXVIII no. 268, hꜥs reꜥd Pꜣ-mꜣꜥ, the new reading accoring to Den Brinker, A. A., Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven. n ḥsb.t 36
4	ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 6

¹ For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 226.
² Devauchelle, Didier, 1983. Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre, Bibliothèque d’Étude 92, Cairo, 118, pl. XXXVIII no. 268, hꜥs reꜥd Pꜣ-mꜣꜥ, the new reading accoring to Den Brinker, A. A., Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven.

convex

1	Thus have brought Paes, son of Eschnumpmetis, [and?]
2	his wife (and) Snebthys, his daughter, 1 silver kite for the salt tax
3	for the 36th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, in the 36th regnal year,
4	6th of Pharmouthi.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7390	man	Paes, son of Eschnoumpmetis	Pa-ḥꜢ.t sꜢ Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mty	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	36	Pharmuthi	06	-249 May 23 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307274
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49621
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 307274 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 268), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).