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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1163

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1163
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Publication Status unpublished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 194 and 195
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, hand of Bienchis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Serenos the younger, son of Pachnoubis, and Mettis Tyrannos, collectors of taxes in money and kind of Elephantine, through the assistant Bienchis, for the price of public dates of the harvest of year 2, paid by Thinmeaus on account of Pachnoubis alias Phaphis, in year 3 of Septimius Severus
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as tax payer
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σερῆν̣ος νεώτ(ερος) Παχνούμ(εως) καὶ Μέ-
2τις Τύρανν̣ος πράκ(τορες) ἀργ(υρικῶν) καὶ σιτ(ικῶν)
3Ἐλεφαντίνης δι᾿ ἐμοῦ Βιήγχεως βοηθ(οῦ). διέγ(ραψεν)
4Θινμεαῦς ὑπὲρ τιμ̣ῆς δ̣η̣μοσί-
5ου φοίνικος γενήματος β (ἔτους) ὀνόματ(ος)
6Πάχνουβις ὁ καὶ Φαφις (δραχμὴν) α καὶ
7ὀνόματος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
y – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
convex
1Serenus the younger, son of Pachnoumis, and Met-
2tius Tyrannus, collectors of taxes in money and kind
3at Elephantine, through me, the assistant Bienchis. Thus has paid
4Thinmeaus for the price of public
5dates of the harvest of year 2, on account
6of Pachnoubis alias Phaphis, 1 dr. and
7on account of ---
y– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
OGL_1163_S1_001
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27075 man Bienchis, scribe (late) Βιήγχ(εως) pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Septimius Severus 03 194 CE 195 CE date in text is year of harvest, receipt dates from the following year 3;

 

Pictures

OGL_1163_S1_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317662
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 317662 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1163), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.