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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 939

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 939
Publication Number O. Louvre 939
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 incomplete
State of Preservation Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
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 Very wide and inequal line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the potsherd, without lateral margins. The upper left and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 80 0
Column Height (in mm) 39 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 80+y x 39 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 Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias, und Pates, son of Espmetis, are each confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, 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
1ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
2ı͗n Pꜣ-ḏı͗ sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty
3n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ sꜣ Pꜣ-wpṱ 1Name of father not read by Devauchelle.

1 Name of father not read by Devauchelle.
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias [///]
2Thus has brought Pates, son of Espmetis [///]
3Issued by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7510 man Pachnoumis, son of Pelaias Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307315
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 55667
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 307315 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 939), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).