Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1454

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1454
Publication Number	ined OGL 1454
Current Location	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished

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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Tuckett, Francis Fox Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, Demotic Greek: hand of Petepiphis
Comments on Text Layout	Wide and unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with only very small margins at the sides and on top. The lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+1	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 salt tax
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Eskasothes, son of Nechthor Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pais, son of Pachnoumis, and his wife Taretis are confirmed by Eskasothes, son of Nechethor, of having paid the salt tax for the 30th regnal year. Greek subscript of Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscript of Petepiphis.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

Transcription

Translation

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pa-ḥy sꜣ Pa-H̱nm ḥnꜥ
2	Ta-rṱ tꜣy=f rmṯ.t ḥḏ qd 2/3 ḏbꜥ.t ½ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 30
3	n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-(qꜣy-)šw.ty sꜣ Nḫt.ṱ-Ḥr n ḥsb.t 30 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 10
4	sẖ Pꜣ-ḥṱr sꜣ Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ

¹ Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje.

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5	διὰ Πετεπιφι

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1	Thus have brought Pais, son of Pachnoumis, and
2	Taretis, his wife, 2/3 silver kite and ½ obols for the salt tax for the 30th regnal year.
3	Issued by Eskasothes, son of Nechethor, in the 30th regnal year, 10th of Choiak.
4	Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes.
5	Through Petepiphis.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28480	man	Pais, son of Pachnoumis	Pa-ḥy sꜣ Pa-Hnm	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	30	Choiak	10	-255 February 2 BCE	date in demotic text;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315804
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 315804 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1454), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).