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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1409

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1409
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Publication Status	unpublished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 113 and 114
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left

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
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Lucius Aurelius
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (cheironaxion)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Lucius Aurelius epiteretes
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of supervisor (epiteretes) Lucius Aurelius for trade tax or year of 16 or 17 of Trajan, paid by Peeis, son of Bienchis and Thinzmethis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

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1	διέγραψ(εν) Πεή̣εις Βιήνχεως
2	μητ(ρὸς) Θινζμηθις ¹l. Θινζμήθιος ὑπὲρ χιροναξίου ²l. χειρωναφίου
3	ις? (ἔτους) Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
4	δραχ(μὰς) εἴκοσι ὀβολοὺς δύο, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) κ (διώβολον).
5	(ἔτους) ιζ? Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Μεχεὶρ
6	δι(ὰ) Λουκίου Αὐρ̣̣ηλίου ἐπ̣ι̣τ̣ηρητοῦ.

¹ l. Θινζμήθιος
² l. χειρωναφίου

convex

1	Thus has paid Peeis, son of Bienchis
2	and the mother Thinzmethis for trade tax
3	of year 16 of Trajan the lord,
4	twenty drachmas, two obols, = 20 dr. 2 ob.
5	In year 17? of Trajan the lord, Mecheir.
6	Through Lucius Aurelius, supervisor.

OGL_1409_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4325	man	Lucius Aurelius epiteretes	Παχνοῦβις	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan		Mecheir		113 CE 114 CE	date in text, year incertain: year 16 or 17 of Trajan;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317733
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 317733 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1409), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.