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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0841

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0841
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Publication Status	unpublished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 128 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right

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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the supervisor Gellius Perses for poll tax of year 12 of Hadrian, paid by Petorzmethis alias Dax, son of Petorzmethis and Senpoueris in year 13 of Hadrian, with subscript of Gellius Perses.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Γέλλιος Πέρσης ἐπιτηρητ(ὴς)
2	ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης. διέγραψ(εν) Πετόρ-
3	ζμηθις ὁ καὶ Δὰξ Πετορζμήθ(ιος) μη(τρὸς)
4	Σενπούηρις ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας τοῦ δω-
5	δεκάτου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος
6	τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον), δεσμ(οφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).
7	(ἔτους) ιγ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Φα̣ω̣φι -?-
8	Γέλλιος Πέρ̣σης ἐπιτηρητὴς σεσημείωμαι ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δέ̣κα
9	ἑπτὰ ὀβολὸν, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός).

convex

1	Gellius Perses, supervisor
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene. Thus has paid Petor-
3	zmethis alias Dax, son of Petorzmethis and the mother
4	Senpoueris, for poll tax of the
5	twelfth year of Hadrian Caesar
6	the lord, seventeen drachmas 1/2 ob., for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob.
7	In year 13 of Hadrian the lord, Phaophi ---
8	(hd. 2) Gellius Perses, supervisor, I have signed for silver drachmas seven-
9	teen one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
21970	man	Gellius Perses epiteretes	Γέλλιος Πέρσης	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	13	Phaophi		128 September 28 CE 128 October 27 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317559
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 317559 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0841), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.