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Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1623

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1623
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Publication Status unpublished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 part 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
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Small line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper half of the potsherd, with small but equal margins on top and at the lateral sides. The lower part remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 89 0
Column Height (in mm) 19 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 89+y x 19 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 Poeris, son of Payris, is confirmed by Plous, son of Horos, of having paid the yoke tax for the 13th regnal year in an amount of 2½ silver kite.
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 Pa-wr sꜣ Pa-Ḥr ḥḏ qd 2½ (n) ḥḏ nḥb n ḥsb.t 13
2n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-rwꜣ sꜣ Ḥr ḥsb.t 14

1 Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.
1Thus has brought Poeris, son of Payris, 2⸣½ silver kite for the yoke tax for the 13th regnal year.
2Issued by Plous, son of Horos. 14th regnal year [///]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25760 man Poeris, son of Payris Pa-wr sꜣ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 14 -272 BCE -271 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 315819
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 315819 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1623), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).