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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1294

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1294
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Publication Status	unpublished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 192 and 193
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, hand of Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis (boethos)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Bassus and Didymion, tax farmer of Syene, through the assistant Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, for geometria phoinikonos of the harvest of year 32 of Commodus, paid in year 33 of Commodus.
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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convex

1	Βάσσος καὶ Διδυμίων μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς
2	πύλ(ης) Σοή(νης) δι᾿ ἐμοῦ Παχνούβ(ιος) Πε̣τορζμήθ̣ου
3	βοηθοῦ. διέγ(ραψεν) ὑπ(ὲρ) γεωμ(ετρίας) φοι(νικῶνος) γ̣ενήματος λβ (ἔτους)
4	-?- χημις Πεσ̣-
5	-?- ̣ ὀβολ(οὺς) ἕξ, (γίνεται) χα(λκίνη).
6	-?- λγ // ̣ ̣ -?-
y	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	Bassus and Didymion, tax farmers of the Sacred
2	Gate of Syene, through me, Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis,
3	assistant. Thus has paid for the survey tax on palm groves for the harvest of year 32,
4	--- -chemis, son of Pes-
5	--- six obols, = Chalkine.
6	In year 33?, ---

OGL_1294_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
40425	man	Bassus (misthotes)	Βάσσος	Latin

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Commodus	33			192 CE 193 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317712
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 317712 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1294), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.