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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0958

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0958
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Publication Status	unpublished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 115 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left 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 left and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Didymion praktor (through the scribe Palachemis), for poll tax of year 18 of Trajan, paid by Kalasiris ---; with signature of Didymion.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Διδυμίω̣ν̣ π̣ράκτωρ. διέγραψε Καλά-
2	σιρις -?- ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ο̣ς̣ μητρὸς Σενπ̣α-
3	6-8 ὑπ(ὲρ) λαω̣γραφίας ¹l. λαογραφίας ιη (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ Ἀ̣ρ̣ίστου
4	Καίσαρος τοῦ κ̣υ̣ρίου ῥ̣υπ̣αρὰς δραχμὰς δεκαεπτὰ̣
5	ὀβολ(ὸν), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολόν). (ἔτους) ιη Τ̣ρ̣α̣ι̣ανοῦ Ἀρίστ̣ου
6	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίο̣υ̣ Π̣αχ̣ὼν ι. Διδ̣υμίων ἔσχον.
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

¹ l. λαογραφίας

convex

1	Didymion, collector. Thus has paid Kala-
2	siris, son of --- and the mother Senpa-
3	--- fo poll tax of year 18 of Traianus Optimus
4	Caesar the lord, brutto, seventeen drachmas
5	one obol, = 17 dr. 1 ob. In year 18 of Traianus Optimus
6	Caesar the lord, Pachon 10. (h. 2) Didymion, I have recieved.
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

OGL_0958_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4451	man	Didymion praktor	Διδυμίων	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	18	Pachons	10	115 May 5 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317602
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 317602 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0958), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.