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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 |
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) | 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 |
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 | 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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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; |
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). |