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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 704

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 704
Publication Number O. Louvre 704
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, dark 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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with very small margins at the lateral sides. The little upper right crotch and the lower half of the potsherd remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 67 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 67 x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pasounet, son of Horus, is confirmed by Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus, of having paid the poll/capitation tax for the 3rd regnal year, in an amount of 4 staters.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1r.wṱ Pa-swn.t sꜣ Ḥr
2ẖr pꜣ ḥmt n ꜥpe n ḥsb.t 3.t n
3n Nꜣrwn Glwṱys
4Gsyrs Sbst Grmnqs
5ꜣwtgrṱr ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw ꜥrqi sttr 4.t
6n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mty sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pꜣy-ḥwṱ
1That which was paid cash by Pasounet, son of Horos,
2for the copper amount of the poll tax for the 3rd regnal year
3of Nero Claudius
4Caesar Augustus Germanicus
5Imperator, 30th of Pharmouthi: 4 staters.
6Issued by Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7675 man Pasounet, son of Horos Pa-swn.t sꜢ Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nero 03 Pharmuthi 30 57 April 21 CE internal dating, with name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307303
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55678
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 307303 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 704), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).