Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1424

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1424
Publication Number	O. Louvre
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: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
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, beige
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	75 mm \| 104 mm \| 10 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower right part is lost today.
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)	Many signs expecially in l 3 - 4 are heavily faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	15	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+15 x 55+y	0

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Esyris, son of Pasenis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Horos, son of Thotmenis, is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias, of having paid the yoke tax for the 30th regnal year, in an amount of 1/2 kite. The receipt was issued by Esyris, sonf of Pasenis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ pꜣ nty ḏd n Ḥr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mn
2	ḏı͗=k n=y qd ½ n pꜣy=k nḥb
3	nḥb n ḥsb.t 30
4	n-ḏr.t Ns-Ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-sny ¹Reading of this line by Jan Moje, according to infra-red iamge.
5	/// sw 22

¹ Reading of this line by Jan Moje, according to infra-red iamge.

convex

1	Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias, is the one who speaks to Horos, son of Thotmenis:
2	‘You have given me ½ kite (for) your yoke tax [///]
3	[///] yoke tax for the 30th regnal year.
4	[///] ..?..
5	[///] 22nd of [///].

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7515	man	Horos, son of Thotmenis	Ḥr sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-mn	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	30		22	-256 BCE -255 BCE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	307290
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49584
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 307290 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1424), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).