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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1404

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Metadata

Collection

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

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, 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])

Text Basic Information

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

 

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 [///], 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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n ta Ḏd-ḥr ḥḏṱ qd ¼
2n 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.
3ḥsb.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)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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).