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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
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 Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-ḥꜣ.t sꜣ Ns-H̱nm-pꜣ-mty ḥnꜥ
2tꜣy=f rmṯ.t 8ḥnꜥ) Ns-Nb.t-ḥ.t tꜣy=f šr.t ḥḏ qd 1 r pꜣ ḥmꜣ
3n 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
4ı͗bd 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
1Thus have brought Paes, son of Eschnumpmetis, [and?]
2his wife (and) Snebthys, his daughter, 1 silver kite for the salt tax
3for the 36th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, in the 36th regnal year,
46th of Pharmouthi.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

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).