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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0527

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0527
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Publication Status unpublished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 161 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at right and bottom

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 right and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for trade tax for perfum (myrepeias)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through an unknown scribe, who might also have written O.Worp 60. The tax is myrepseia, perhaps a trade tax for seller of perfum.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Οὔλπιος Κερεᾶλις μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ -?-
2γραμματέως. διέγραψεν Παχν̣ -?-
3μυρεψείας? ... -?-
4(ἔτους) α Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου
5Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκρατορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Ulpius Cerealis, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through ---
2scribe. Has paid Pachn--- --- for the trade? tax
3for the preparation of unguents ---
4In year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
5Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
OGL_0527_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15485 man Ulpius Cerealis misthotes Οὔλπιος Κερεᾶλις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius + Verus 01 161 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

OGL_0527_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317515
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 317515 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0527), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.