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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0053

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0053
Publication Number	ined.
Current Location	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned
Publication Status	unpublished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)	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 24 and 30
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	surface damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	surface damaged and abraded
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, bilingual scribe+praktor Tiberius
Text Types	documentary documentary | receipt
Summary of Content	receipt for laographia of unknown year of Tiberius, written by collector Petorsmethis (bilingual)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
39010	man	Petorzmethis, son of Pachnoubis (Tiberius)	Πετορζμηθι Παχνουβι	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	11			24 CE	between year 11 and 16 of Tiberius;

 

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Literature

• Duttenhöfer, Ruth, A Bilingual Scribe in Early Roman Tax Receipts from Elephantine (2021). ()

 

DatasetID	317374
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 317374 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0053), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.