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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 900

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Metadata

Collection

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

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: 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

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])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n 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
3ḥsb.t 36 ı͗bd3 ꜣḫ.t sw 28

1 Contra Devauchelle, who read Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ ..?.. .
convex
4διὰ Δώρου (τριώβολον)
1Thus has brought ..?.. ¼ silver kite
2(for) the salt tax (for) the 36th regnal year. Issued by Petobastis, son of Esyris.
336th regnal year, 28th of Phamenoth.
4Through Doros: 3 obols.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_900_S
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_900_I
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_900_S
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Paris_Louvre_ODL_900_I
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Literature

 

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).