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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 |
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, 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for an unidentified tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
7605 | (unknown) | Bienchis [///] (ODL 298) | By-ꜥnḫ [///] | (not identified) |
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; |
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). |