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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0972

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0972
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Publication Status	unpublished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 135 and 136
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) and prison guards (desmophylakon)
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Palachemis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Iulius Sabinus epiteretes, through the scribe Palachemis for poll tax of year 19 of Hadrian, paid by Sansnos?, son of Pachomon? in year 20 of Hadrian.
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	Ἰούλιος Σαβεῖν̣ο̣ς̣ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπι-
2	τηρη(ταὶ) ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Παλαχήμιος βοηθοῦ.
3	διέγραψε Σαν̣σνῶς Παχομωνο̣ς
4	μη(τρὸς) -ca. 8- ησις ὑπὲρ λαογραφίας ιθ (ἔτους) Ἁδριανοῦ
5	Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμὰς δέκα ἑπτὰ (ἡμιωβέλιον),
6	δεσ(μοφυλάκων) (ἡμιωβέλιον), (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ (ὀβολός). (ἔτους) κ̣ Ἁδρͅι̣ανοῦ Καίσαρος
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	Iulius Sabinus and his associate supervisors
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Palachemis.
3	Thus has paid Sansnos?, son of Pachomos
4	and the mother ---esis, for poll tax of year 19 of Hadrian
5	Caesar the lord, brutto, drachmas seventeen 1/2 ob.,
6	for prison guards 1/2 ob., = 17 dr. 1 ob. In year 20 of Hadrian Caesar
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

OGL_0972_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
41875	man	---snos, son of Pachomon?		pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	20			135 CE 136 CE	date in text;

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OGL_0972_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317608
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 317608 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0972), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.