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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0314

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0314
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Publication Status unpublished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
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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for river police boats and guard posts (merismos potamophylakidon and stationos)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Petorzmethis (alias Pachompsachis), praktor of Elephantine, for merismoi for river police boats and guard posts, paid by NN, son of Zmenpos, in year 18 of Hadrian
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πετόρζμηθις πράκ(τωρ) Ἐλεφαντίνης. διέγραψεν
2ca. 8 Ζμεντπῶτος ὑπὲρ
3μερισμ(οῦ) ποταμονφυλακίδων σὺν στατίωνος
4ιη? (ἔτους) ῥυπ(αρὰν) (δραχμὴν) α (τετρώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον)? (δίχαλκον). (ἔτους) ιη
5Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσα̣ρος
6τοῦ κυρίου. Ἐπεὶφ α̅.
convex
1Petorzmethis, tax collector at Elephantine. Thus has paid
2---, son of Zmentpos, for
3the contribution for river police boats and guard posts
4for year 18, brutto, 1 dr. 4,5 ob. 2 ch. Year 18
5of Hadrian Caesar
6the lord, Epeiph 1.
OGL_0314_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
13780 man Petorzmethis (alias Pachompsachis) praktor Πετορζμῆθις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Hadrian 18 Epeiph 01 134 June 25 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

OGL_0314_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317441
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 317441 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0314), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.