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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 243

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 243
Publication Number O. Louvre 243
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: 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

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, light red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left part is broken.
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) The endings of all lines are lost today.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide and steady line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper part of the surface of the potsherd, with a broad margin on the right side. On top, the tex is very close to the upper rim. The lower part of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 64 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+64 x 35 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pachnoumis, son of Pamonthes, is confirmed by Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus, of having paid the poll tax for the 5th regnal year, in an amount of 4 staters.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1r.wṱ Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Mnṱ
2ẖr pꜣ ḥmt n ꜥpe n ḥsb.t 5 n Tbrys
3Glwṱys Gsyrs Sbsṱ
4Grmnqs ꜣwtgrtr
5sttr 4.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mty sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣy-ḥwṱ
convex
1That which was paid by Pachnoumis, (son) of Pamonthes,
2for the copper amount of the poll tax for the 5th regnal year of [Tiberius]
3Claudius Caesar [Augustus]
4Germanicus Impe[rator]:
54 staters. Issued by Petosorsmetis, [son pf Petephaus].
Paris_Louvre_ODL_243_S
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8125 man imperator 04 Claudius: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Tbwrys Glwṱys / Glwṱes Gsyrs Sbsṱ Grmnqs Κλαυδίος Καίσ]αρòος Latin

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Claudius 05 43 CE 44 CE internal dating, with name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

Paris_Louvre_ODL_243_S
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307292
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55675
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 307292 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 243), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).