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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 289

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 289
Publication Number O. Louvre 289
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, orange brown
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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow and partly unsteady line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with a small margin at top and a broader one on the left side. The line beginnings are closed to the right rim. The lower third remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 95 0
Column Height (in mm) 45 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 95 x 45 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for an unidentified tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Petamounis, son of Paieus, is confirmed by Pachnoumis, son of Paieus, of having paid the rate of an unidentified tax for the 12th regnal year, in an amount of 1,5 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn 1Reading by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image. Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 186, no. 289 read „Pꜣ-..?..“. sꜣ Pa-ı͗wı͗w sꜣ Pa-sny ḥḏ qd 1½
2n tꜣ(?) (n) ḥsb.t 12 n-ḏr.t Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-ı͗wı͗w 2Reading of the father's name by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image.
3r-ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Ḥr n ḥsb.t 13
4ı͗bd 4 šms sw 2 3Reading of the complete line by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image. Devauchelle read .. m-bꜣḥ ...

1 Reading by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image. Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 186, no. 289 read „Pꜣ-..?..“.
2 Reading of the father's name by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image.
3 Reading of the complete line by Jan Moje, according to infra-red image. Devauchelle read .. m-bꜣḥ ...
1Thus has brought Petamounis, son of Paieus, son of Pasenis, 1½ silver kite
2for the [///] (for) the 12th regnal year. Issued by Pachnoumis, son of Paieus .
3On declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris, in the 13th regnal year,
42nd of Mesore.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8370 man Pachnoumis, son of Payris Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 13 Mesore 02 -272 September 22 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307295
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 49645
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 307295 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 289), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).