Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 323
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 323 |
| Publication Number |
O. Louvre 323 |
| 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, light brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
64 mm | 73 mm | 9 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
| 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 endings of all lines are complete faded. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Rather small but unsteady line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the surface of potsherd, with broad margins at three sides. Only all line endings are very close to the left rim.
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
5 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
55 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
30 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
55 x 30 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Thotomous, son of Pasenis, b) his unnamed wife, c) the unnamed daughter of his wife, d) Pasenis, his son, and e) the unnamed wife of his son are confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 16th regnal year. |
| 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 his wife (without her own name)
- Identifier of woman: wife of his son (without her own name) |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Thus have brought Thotomous, son of Pasenis, and his wife, |
2 | | and the daughter of his wife, and Pasenis, his son, |
3 | | and his wife, ..?.. obols and ..?.., |
4 | | for the salt tax for the 16th regnal year. He has credited it |
5 | | for the ..?.. . Issued by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis.
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 7440 |
man |
Pasenis, son of Thotomous |
Pa-sny sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-mꜢꜤ |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
16 |
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-232 October 16 BCE -231 October 15 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
307281 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
49625 |
| 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 307281 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 323), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata). |
