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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 298

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 298
Publication Number O. Louvre 298
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 incomplete
State of Preservation The left part is broken today.
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 Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) ostracon, without lateral margins, but with a large lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 42 0
Column Height (in mm) 60 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 42+y x 60 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 Bienchis [///] is confirmed by Harpaese, son of [Pouoptıs], of having paid the rate of an unidentified tax for the 11th regnal year, in a lost amount. Countersigned by Spotous son of Patous, and by [///].
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ı͗n By-ꜥnḫ 1Suggestion J. Moje. ḥḏ qd
2n ḥsb.t 11 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-sꜣ-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wpṱ 2Reconstruction by J. Moje. ḥsbt. 11
3ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 27 3Regularly, there should not be lost anything at the left.
4sẖ Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wı͗ sꜣ Pp-tꜣ.wı͗4Restauration by Jan Moje, according to palaeography and prosopography
5r-ẖ pꜣ nty ḥry
6sẖ

1 Suggestion J. Moje.
2 Reconstruction by J. Moje.
3 Regularly, there should not be lost anything at the left.
4 Restauration by Jan Moje, according to palaeography and prosopography
1Thus has brought Bi[enchis ///] [/// silver kite for the /// tax]
2for the 11th regnal year. Issued by Harsiesis, son of [///. 11th regnal year,]
327th of Pharmouthi.
4Countersigned by Spotous, son of [Patous],
5in accordance to that what is (written) above.
6Countersigned by [///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7605 (unknown) Bienchis [///] (ODL 298) By-ꜥnḫ [///] (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 11 Pharmuthi 27 -236 June 10 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307296
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55640
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 307296 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 298), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).