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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1473

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1473
Publication Number inedit
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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) (unknown)
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 (unknown)

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Left and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.

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) All line endings are broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text shows medium upper and lower margins, presumably no right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 35 0
Column Height (in mm) 40 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 35+y x 40 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Tap⸢..?..⸣ is confirmed by [///], son of Espmetis, of having paid the yoke tax for a lost year in an lost amount. Countersigned by a person whose name ist lost, too.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - identifier of woman: [///]

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Ta-pꜣ-
2ḥḏ nḥb ḥsb.t n-ḏr.t NN
3sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
4 sẖ

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Tap⸢..?..⸣ [///]
2for the yoke tax for the [///]th regnal year. [Issued by NN],
3son of Espmetis [///]
4..?.. Countersigned by [///]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25685 woman Tap⸢..?..⸣ [///] Ta-pꜣ-⸢..?..⸣ [///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by palaeography, dating by content;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315811
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315811 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1473), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).