Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 307

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 307
Publication Number	O. Louvre 307
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	49 mm \| 53 mm \| 11 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Several signs are faded, especially at the line endings, the final part of the first line is lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Unsteady line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire preserved surface of the potsherd. The upper right crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	64	0
Column Height (in mm)	57	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+64 x 57	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Belles, son of [///]
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Ta[///] is confirmed by Belles of having paid the salt tax for the 4th regnal year, in a lost amount. Countersigned by Stamanichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis, and Panas, son of Nechthotes.
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: [///]

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1	ı͗n Ta- ḥḏ qd
2	(n) pꜣ dnı͗ (n) ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 4.t n-ḏr.t Br ḥsb.t 4
3	ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 24
4	sẖ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
5	sẖ Pa-nꜣ (sꜣ) Nḫt-Ḏḥwtı͗ ¹Suggestion J. Moje.

¹ Suggestion J. Moje.

1	Thus has brought Ta-[///] [/// silver kite]
2	(for) the salt tax (for) the 4th regnal year. Issued by Belles. [4th regnal year,]
3	24th of Choiak.
4	Countersigned by Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pachnoumis.
5	Countersigned by Panas, (son) of Nechthotes.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8805	man	Panas, son of Nechthotes	Pa-nꜢ sꜢ Nḫt-Ḏḥwỉ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	04	Choiak	24	-243 February 9 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307279
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55605
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 307279 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 307), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).