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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 935

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 935
Publication Number O. Louvre 935 / SB XVI 12881
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 Unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without margins on the lateral sides and only a small one on top.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 35 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 Pmenches, son of [///], is confirmed by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis, of having paid the salt tax for the 28th regnal year, in an amount of ⅓ kite and ½ obols. Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and a further, illegible Greek line.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscription with mentioning of the responsible tax farmer, not given in the Demotic part, and a further, illegible Greek line.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-mnḫ sꜣ ḥḏ qd ⅓ ḏbꜥ.t ½
2(n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t. 28 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr ḥsb.t 29
3ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 17
convex
4διὰ Πετεπί̣φ̣ιος
5κ̣η̣ς 1Line 5 according to Devauchelle. He supposes here ἁλικῆς and the amount in ciphers. But on all receipts with mentioning of the tax farmer Petepiphis in the Greek subscription tax type and amount are never mentioned.

1 Line 5 according to Devauchelle. He supposes here ἁλικῆς and the amount in ciphers. But on all receipts with mentioning of the tax farmer Petepiphis in the Greek subscription tax type and amount are never mentioned.
1Thus has brought Pamenches, son of [///],⅓ [silver] kite and ½ obol
2(for) the salt tax (for) the 28th regnal year. Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis. 29th regnal year,
317th of Thoth
4Through Petepiphis,
5..?..
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
1745 man Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 29 Thoth 17 -257 November 7 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307287
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 4192
Author Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307287 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 935), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).