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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 871

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Metadata

Collection

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

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) 69 mm | 81 mm | 7 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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax (two on one ostracon)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ta-gr-hb 1Here is written „Ta-“ for „Tꜣ-“. ḥḏ qd ¼
2n ḥsb.t34 ı͗bd 1 šmw 2Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image. n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm n ḥsb.t 34 ı͗bd 1 šmw /// 3Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image.
3ı͗n Tꜣ-gr-hb ḥḏ (qd) ¼ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
4n ḥsb.t 35 4Reading J. Moje, according to infra-red image. n-ḏr.t Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ n ḥsb.t 35
5///
6sẖ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-Ḥr

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.
1Thus has brought Tkalaibis ¼ kite ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
2(for) the 34th regnal year, Pachons. [_] Issued by Pachnoumis in the 34 th regnal year, ⸢///⸣ of Pachons.
3Thus has brought Tkalaibis ¼ kite for the salt tax
4for the 35th regnal year. Issued by Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis in the 35th regnal year.
5⸢///⸣
6Countersigned by Parates, son of Payris.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
1540 man Parates, son of Payris Pa-rṱ sꜢ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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;

 

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Literature

 

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.