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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0129

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0129
Publication Number P.Bagnall 22
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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper right corner is lost today.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is heavily faded.
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 Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 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
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 4th regnal year, in an amount of 2 drachmas. Demotic countersignature by Espmetis, son of Petepiphis, amount in Egyptian currency as 1 kite, date.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Demotic subscription: Issuer Espmetis, son of Petepiphis, amont in Egyptian currency as 1 kite, date.
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

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1(ἔτους) δ̣ Φαμενὼθ τέτακται
2Πᾶτις Ἰμούθου Συηνιτῶν
3λογείαν διὰ Δώρου (δραχμὰς) β
convex
4 1Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t ḥḏ qd 1
5ḥsb.t 4 ı͗bd 4 pr.t

1 Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.
14th regnal year, [///]th of Phamenoth. [Thus has paid]
2Pates, son of Imouth[es] ˹for the liturgy˺
3tax through D[oros]: 2 drachmas.
4Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Petepiphis. 1 silver kite.
54th regnal year, ..?..th of Phamenoth
OGL_0129_S1_001
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OGL_0129-1_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8950 man Espmetis, son of Petepiphis Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ PꜢy-ḏỉ-pp.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator 04 Phamenoth -218 April 11 BCE -218 May 10 BCE Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

OGL_0129_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
OGL_0129-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307645
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 219300
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.bagnall;;22
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 307645 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0129), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic; metadata).