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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1855

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1855
Publication Number ined
Current Location Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
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
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Tuckett, Francis Fox
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 251 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range 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, early ptolemaic, hand not known written with reed brush!
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small lateral margins. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+2 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 tax on vinyards (ampelikon)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Alexis, banker of the bank of Syene, for the tax on vinyards (ampelikon), paid by Simion. Demotic subscription: tax type, payer, issuer, date.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Demotic subscription: tax type, payer, issuer, date.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1(ἔτους) λε Μεσορὴ ι. πέπτωκεν
2Ἀλέξει ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν
3άμπελικῶν Σίμιον (τετρώβολον).
convex
4 nꜣ ꜣḥ.w ꜣrr.w ḥsb.t 34 Smyn ḥḏ qd ⅓ n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr
5 ḥsb.t 34 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 10
convex
1Year 35, Mesore 10. Thus has paid
2to Alexis, to the bank (in Syene),
3for vinyards, Simion, 4 obols.
4The fields of wine (tax) for the 34th regnal year: Simion: ⅓ silver kite. Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis.
534th regnal year, 10th of Mesore.
OGL_1855_S1_001
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OGL_1855-1_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4001 man Alexis Αλεξις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 34 Mesore 10 -251 September 29 BCE date in text. Greek text has year 35= financial year!;

 

Pictures

OGL_1855_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
OGL_1855-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315806
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315806 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1855), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic).