Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1389

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1389
Publication Number	O. Louvre 1389 / SB XVI 12882
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)	Complete.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on the lateral sides and a broader one on top. In the lower left corner not covered by the Demotic, the short Greek subscription was positioned.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	95	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	95 x 55	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tayris, wife of Phibis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the salt tax for the 32nd regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. Greek subscription by Petepiphis (according to the script) with repetition of the tax type and amount in Greek currency.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with repetition of the tax type and amount in Greek currency.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Ta-Ḥr ¹Reading J. MOJE according to infra-red image. Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 126-127 no. 1389 reads Ta-.?.-Ḥr. tꜣ rmṯ.t Pꜣ-hb ²Reading according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 439.
2	ḥḏ qd ¼ (n ḥḏ n) ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 32 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
3	ḥsb.t 32 /// sw 22

¹ Reading J. MOJE according to infra-red image. Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 126-127 no. 1389 reads Ta-.?.-Ḥr.
² Reading according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 439.

convex

ἁλικῆς 𐅾

1	Thus has brought Tayris, the wife of Phibis,
2	¼ silver kite for the salt (tax for) the 32nd regnal year. Issued by Phatres, (son) of Hartophnachthes.
3	32nd regnal year, 22nd of ⸢///⸣
4	For the salt tax: 3 obols.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7475	woman	Tayris, the wife of Phibis	Ta-Ḥr tꜢ rmṯ.t PꜢ-hb	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	32		22	-254 October 22 BCE -253 October 20 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

DatasetID	307286
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	4193
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307286 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1389), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).