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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 |
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, ochre-gelb |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 104 mm | 10 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for unidentified tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
1 For the reading of this word as ı͗w instead of ı͗sw (W. Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar, Kobenhavn 1954, 44) cf. CDD ı͗, 223. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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 |
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; |
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). |