Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1404

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1404
Publication Number	O. Louvre 1404
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, dark brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	42 mm \| 67 mm \| 12 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Lower part left and right broken off.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Rest heavily faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centerd on the surface of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	34	0
Column Height (in mm)	26	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+34 x 26+y	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Schesbet, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	[///], daughter of Teos, is confirmed by Schesbet, who is known from other sources as beeing son of Pouoptis, of having paid the salt tax rate a lost regnal year, in an amount of 1/4 kite. The lost tax typ can be reconstructed as beeing the salt tax, because the scribe Schesbet is only attested on salt tax receipts.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	ı͗n ta Ḏd-ḥr ḥḏṱ qd ¼
2	n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t X n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ ¹For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 226.
3	ḥsb.t X ı͗bd X sw X

¹ For the name cf. W. Clarysse – D. J. Thompson, „The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again“, in CdÉ 70 (1995), 223–229, here 226.

convex

1	[Thus has brought ////], daughter of Teos, ¼ silver kite
2	[for the salt tax for the Xth regnal year. Issued by] Schesbet.
3	[Xth regnal year Xth of X.]

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7500	woman	[///], daughter of Teos	[///] ta Ḏd-ḥr	(not identified)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)				-332 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	307289
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55670
Author	Jan Moje; 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 307289 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1404), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).