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Collection | Paris, Musée National du Louvre |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 871 |
Publication Number | O. Louvre 871 |
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, brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 69 mm | 81 mm | 7 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
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) | Heavily faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Rather wide but partly unsteady line pitch. The text covers the entire surface of the potsherd. All line beginnings and endings are close to the lateral rims of the sherd. Only the crotch on top remains uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 50 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75+y x 50 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax (two on one ostracon) |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | receipt 1: Tkalaibis is confirmed by Pachnoumis (son of Paieus) of having paid the salt tax for the (30+x)th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. receipt 2: Tkalaibis is confirmed by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax for a lost regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite . Possibly Countersigned by Paretis, son of Payris. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: none |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Here is written „Ta-“ for „Tꜣ-“. 2 Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image. 3 Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image. 4 Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1540 | man | Parates, son of Payris | Pa-rṱ sꜢ Pa-Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 34 | Pachons | -251 June 18 BCE -251 July 17 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307283 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 49626 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307283 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 871), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |