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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 278

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 278
Publication Number O. Louvre 278
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) 65 mm | 78 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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Some signs, expecially in the first line, are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Unsteady line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the potshed, with a broader margin on top. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 78 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+78 x 30 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 Taubastis, daughter of Iuef-di-en-i-anch, 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 amount of 1/4 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: daughter of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-Bꜣst.t ta I͗w=f-ḏı͗-n=y-ꜥnḫ 1Reading of the name according to Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 436.
2 2The two signs at the beginning l. 2 are without parallel within the tax formulas and left unread by Devauchelle. Could it be a crude writing for a word like sn „money(offer)“, cf. Muhs, Brian, Dielemann, Jacco, 2006. A Bilingual Account from Late Ptolemaic Tebtunis. P.Leiden RMO Inv. No. F 1974/7.52, in: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 133, 56 – 65.esp. 59 note e? ḥḏ qd ¼ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 38 n-ḏr.t 3Cf. 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.
3Šsb.t 4For 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 39 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 24

1 Reading of the name according to Den Brinker, Anna Adriana, Muhs, Brian, Vleeming, Sven P. 2005. A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic documents, Studia Demotica 7 A-B, Leuven, 436.
2 The two signs at the beginning l. 2 are without parallel within the tax formulas and left unread by Devauchelle. Could it be a crude writing for a word like sn „money(offer)“, cf. Muhs, Brian, Dielemann, Jacco, 2006. A Bilingual Account from Late Ptolemaic Tebtunis. P.Leiden RMO Inv. No. F 1974/7.52, in: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 133, 56 – 65.esp. 59 note e?
3 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.
4 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
1Thus has brought Taubastis, daughter of Iu-[ef-di-en-i-anch,]
2..?.. ¼ silver (kite) (for) the salt tax (for) the 38th regnal year. Issued by
3Schesbet. 39th regnal year, 24th of Thoth.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7380 woman Taubastis, daughter of Iu-ef-di-en-i-anch Ta-BꜢst.t ta Ỉw=f-ḏỉ-n=y-Ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 39 Thoth 24 -247 November 12 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307277
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49623
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 307277 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 278), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).