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unpublished |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 |
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| 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 |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| 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
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 |
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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; |
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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). |
