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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 |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 42 mm | 67 mm | 12 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) | 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 | |
Text Types |
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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 | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 Contra Devauchelle, who
read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ ..?.. .
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Places (read out from edition) |
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; |
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). |