Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1840

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Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1840
Publication Number	ined OGL 1840
Current Location	magazine
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Publication Status	unpublished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:

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	upper left corner damaged
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	Bilingual receipt, early ptolemaic Demotic Greek: hand of Psenyris, written with reed brush
Comments on Text Layout	Wide and steady line pitch. The texts are placed on the upper and the lower half of the postsherd.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3+2
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost]) Psenyris
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Senpoeris, wife of Bubalos, is confirmed ba a man whose name is lost of having paid the salt tax for the 38th regnal year. Mentioning of the "rest". Greek subscript of Psenyris: tax collector, tax type, payer and amount.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscript of Psenyris: tax collector, tax type, payer and amount.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man, additionally with his father

Transcription

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convex

1	¹Transcription and translation of the Greek by Ruth Duttenhöfer, of the Demotic by Jan Moje. ı͗n Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-wr tꜣ rmṯ.t n Bwbls
2	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 38 n-ḏr.t ///
3	n ḥsb.t 38 ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 16 sp ḏbꜥ.t ½ ¼

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

convex

4	διὰ Ψενυρ ἁλικῆς
5	Τσομπουερ (τριώβολον).

convex

1	Thus has brought Senpoeris, the wife of [Bubalos,]
2	son of Petosiris, ¼ silver kite for the salt tax for the 38th regnaly ear. Issued by ⸢///⸣,
3	in the 38th regnal year, 16th of Payni. Rest: ½ ¼ obols.
4	Through Psenyris, for salt tax
5	Senpoeris: 3 obols.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7280	man	Psenyris	Ψενυρ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	38	Payni	16	-247 August 1 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	315805
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 315805 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1840), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).