Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 271

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 271
Publication Number	O. Louvre 271
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
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	65 mm \| 95 mm \| 9 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 end of the lines are lost, some signs at the preserved ends are lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the object, with a broader margin on top. Both line beginnings are closed the right rim. The lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	90	0
Column Height (in mm)	30	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+90 x 30	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	Pachnoumis, son of [///], is confirmed by Schesbet, who is known from other documents beeing son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 38th regnal year, in an lost amount.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ı͗n Pa-H̱nm
2	n ḥsb.t 38 n-ḏr.t ¹Cf. for the reading m-sẖ Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 438.Šsbṱ ²For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 227. ḥsb.t 38

¹ Cf. for the reading m-sẖ Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 438.
² For the name cf. Clarysse, Willy, Thompson, Dorothy J., 1995. The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again, in: Chronique d’Égypte 70, 223–229, here 227.

convex

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, [son of ///, /// silver kite]
2	for the 38th regnal year. Issued by Schesbet. 38th regnal year [///]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6810	man	Pachnoumis, son of [///]	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ [///]	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	38			-248 BCE -247 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307275
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49622
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 307275 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 271), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).