Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0129

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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

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 Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper right corner is lost today.
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)	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

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax (Syeniton logeia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Espmetis, son of Petepiphis
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

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4	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t ḥḏ qd 1
5	ḥsb.t 4 ı͗bd 4 pr.t

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje.

1	4th regnal year, [///]th of Phamenoth. [Thus has paid]
2	Pates, son of Imouth[es] ˹for the liturgy˺
3	tax through D[oros]: 2 drachmas.
4	Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Petepiphis. 1 silver kite.
5	4th regnal year, ..?..th of Phamenoth

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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

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;

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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).