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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1589

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1589
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Publication Status unpublished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 complete
State of Preservation Complete.

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) Heavily faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text convers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, without a right margin. The lower right crotch remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 70 0
Column Height (in mm) 37 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 70 x 37 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 Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis, is confirmed by Teos, son of ⸢///⸣, of having paid the yoke tax for the 15th regnal year, in a lost amount.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
11Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm
2n ḥḏ n nḥṱ.t ḥsb.t 15 n-ḏr.t Ḏd-ḥr ///
3n ḥsb.t 15 ///

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Pelaias, son of ⸢/Stamnaichnoumis,
2for the nḥṱ.t tax for the 15th regnal year. Issueed by Teos, ⸢///⸣
3in the 15th regnal year ⸢///⸣
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7950 man Pelaias, son of Stamnaichnoumis PꜢ-mr-ỉḥ sꜢ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 15 -271 BCE -270 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315816
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 315816 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1589), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).