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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 931

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 931
Publication Number O. Louvre 931
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, 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) Many signs are faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered on the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 47 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 47 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 Horos, son of Pachnoumis, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes of having paid the rate of a lost tax for a lost regnal year, in a lost amount.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 pꜣ nty ḏd
2n Ḥr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḏı͗=y mḥ
3
4 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḥtr
5
1⸢..?..⸣ is the one who speaks
2to Horos, son of Pachnoumis: ‘I have fulfilled
3⸢..?..⸣
4 ⸢..?..⸣ Issued by Phatres.
5⸢..?..⸣.
Paris_Louvre_ODL_931_S
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7725 man Horos, son of Pachnoumis Ḥr sꜢ Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos -285 BCE -246 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Paris_Louvre_ODL_931_I
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307310
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55665
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 307310 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 931), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).