Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 900

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 900
Publication Number	O. Louvre 900 / SB XVI 12880
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: unknown
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: unknown
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

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Many signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	84	0
Column Height (in mm)	40	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	84 x 40	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Petobastis, son of Esyris Petosiris, son of ..?.. [ODL 900]
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	..?.. is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esyris, having paid the salt tax for the 36th regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and repetition of the amount in Greek currency.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and repetition of the amount in Greek currency.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: none

Transcription

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1	ı͗n ḥḏ qd ¼
2	(n) pꜣ ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 36 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t ¹Contra Devauchelle, who read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ ..?.. . sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
3	ḥsb.t 36 ı͗bd3 ꜣḫ.t sw 28

¹ Contra Devauchelle, who read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ ..?.. .

convex

4	διὰ Δώρου (τριώβολον)

1	Thus has brought ..?.. ¼ silver kite
2	(for) the salt tax (for) the 36th regnal year. Issued by Petobastis, son of Esyris.
3	36th regnal year, 28th of Phamenoth.
4	Through Doros: 3 obols.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8205	woman	..?.. (ODL 900)	..?.. (ODL 900)	(not identified)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	36	Hathyr	28	-249 January 16 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307284
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4191
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307284 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 900), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).