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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 265

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 265
Publication Number O. Louvre 265
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, ochre-gelb
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) The endings of the first lines are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper third of the surface of the potsherd, with only very small margins on top and at the lateral sides. The lower two-thirds remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 10 0
Column Height (in mm) 25 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+10 x 25 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for unidentified tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pelaias, son of Paieus, is confirmed by Pachnoumis of having paid the rate of an unidentified tax for the 14th regnal year, in an amount of 13 kite. Countersigned by Potemetous, son of Psentotoes
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pa-ı͗wı͗w ı͗w 1For the reading of this word as ı͗w instead of ı͗sw (W. Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar, Kobenhavn 1954, 44) cf. CDD ı͗, 223. qd 13 r ḥḏ
2n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm ḥsb.t 14 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 7
3sẖ Pꜣ-wḏꜣ-mtw=s sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Twtw n ḥsb.t 14 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 7

1 For the reading of this word as ı͗w instead of ı͗sw (W. Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar, Kobenhavn 1954, 44) cf. CDD ı͗, 223.
convex
1Thus has brought Pelaias, son of Paieus, inpayment of 13 (kite) for the tax ..?..
2Issued by Pachnoumis. 14th regnal year, 7th of Mesore.
3Countersigned by Potemetous, (son) of Psentotoes, in the 14th regnal year, 7th of Mesore.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25285 man Pelaias, son of Paieus, son of Pasenis PꜢ-mr.ıḥ sꜢ Pa-ỉwỉw sꜢ Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 14 Mesore 07 -271 September 27 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307293
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55618
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 307293 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 265), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).