Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 899

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 899
Publication Number	O. Louvre 899
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, light brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	75 mm \| 104 mm \| 10 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
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)	All line endings are lost today.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper four-fifth of the potsherd, with broad upper and lower margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	65	0
Column Height (in mm)	29	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	65+y x 29	0

Modern Title	receipt for a lost tax (two different receipts)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Amenothes, son of Pathotes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Amenothes, son of Pathotes, of having paid the rate of a lost tax for the 2nd regnal year, in a lost amount. Below a second receipt: Stamnaichnoumis, son of Pa-..?.., is confirmed by Amenothes, son of Pathotes, of having paid the rate of a lost tax for a the 2nd regnal year, in an amount of 1 silver kite.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	¹Reading of lines 2 and 4 by J. Moje, according to infra-red image.ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-hbꜣ
2	n ḥsb.t 2.t ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 10 n-ḏr.t I͗mn-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗
3	ı͗n Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm ḥḏ qd 1 n ḥḏ
4	ḥsb.t 2 ı͗bd 3 šmw n-ḏr.t I͗mn-ḥtp sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗

¹ Reading of lines 2 and 4 by J. Moje, according to infra-red image.

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis [///]
2	for the 2nd regnal year, 10th of Epeiph. Issued by Amenothes, son of Pa[thotes].
3	Thus has brought Stamnaichnoumis 1 silver kite for the ⸢..?..⸣ tax [//]
4	2nd regnal year, Epeiph. [_]Issued by Amenothes, son of Pathotes.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
6715	man	Pachnoumis, son of Phibis	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	02	Epeiph	10	-245 August 24 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	307307
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	55661
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 307307 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 899), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).