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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0117

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0117
Publication Number	P.Bagnall 20
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, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0

Object

Object Type	ostracon
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	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand of Doros demotic subsript
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text is placed onto nthe upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with a very broad margin on the right side, while at the left and upper sides no margins exist. The lower half of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax (Syeniton logeia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Potemetous, son of Psentotoes
Text Types	documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pates, son of Imouthes, is confirmed by tax farmer Doros of having paid the rate for the compulsory labor tax tax for the 26th regnal year, in an amount of 2 drachmas. Demotic countersignature by Potemetous, son of Psentotes.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription by Potemetous, son of Psintotes.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism	Egyptian
Gender	Man
Comment on Religion	Egyptian names in Greek script

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4290	man	Doros (logeutes)	Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου)	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	26	Mecheir	02	-221 March 13 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

• Duttenhöfer, Ruth, Neue Dokumente zur Salzsteuer in Elephantine (P.Bagnall). (91 - 92 no. 20)

 

DatasetID	307644
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	219298
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.bagnall;;20
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic; metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307644 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0117), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic; metadata).