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	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
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

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convex

1	ı͗n 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
3	ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 17

convex

4	διὰ Πετεπί̣φ̣ιος
5	κ̣η̣ς 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.

1	Thus 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,
3	17th of Thoth
4	Through Petepiphis,
5	..?..

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Places (read out from edition)

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).