Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 784

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 784
Publication Number	O. Louvre 784
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
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, brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	52 mm \| 46 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The right part is lost today.
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 beginnings of all lines are lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text shows broad upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	46	0
Column Height (in mm)	38	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+46 x 38+y	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petobastis, son of Esyris Schesbet, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///] and Tareshy, his sister, are confirmed by Schesbet, known from other documents as beeing son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for the 37th regnal year, in an amount of 2/3+1/12 kite. Countersigned by [Petobastis], son of Esyris.
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: sister of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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1	ı͗n NN ḥnꜥ Ta-ršy tꜣy=f sn.t ḥḏ qd ⅔ 1/12
2	n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 37(?) n-ḏr.t Šsb.t 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, and 227 (erronenously doubled, with date“year 39“. ḥsb.t 37
3	ı͗bd X sw X sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr ²Restoration by Jan Moje, due to parallels with countersigners and the hand.

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, and 227 (erronenously doubled, with date“year 39“.
² Restoration by Jan Moje, due to parallels with countersigners and the hand.

1	[Thus have brought NN] and Tareshy, his sister, ⅔ 1/12 silver kite
2	[for the salt tax for the 37th(?) regnal year. Issued] by Schesbet. 37th regnal year,
3	[xth of month x. Countersigned by Petobastis, son] of Esyris.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1775	man	Petobastis, son of Esyris	PꜢ-ḏỉ-BꜢst.t sꜢ Ns-Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	37			-249 October 20 BCE -248 October 19 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

Clarysse, Willy & Thompson, D.J., The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again (1995). (227 (erronenously doubled, with date“year 39“)
Devauchelle, Didier, Ostraca démotiques du Musée du Louvre (1983). (123 no. 784)

DatasetID	307282
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55606
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307282 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 784), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.