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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1479

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Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1479
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Publication Status	unpublished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 96 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and right

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 right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of O.Wilck. 43
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for customs duties
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of Pompeius Valens, tax farmer of the 2% tax at the harbour of Syene, for custom duties on the import? wine, wheat and other items, paid by Bienchis ---
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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Translation

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1	Πομπήιος Οὐάλης καὶ μ(έτοχοι) τελ(ῶναι) πεντηκ(οστῆς)
2	λιμένος Σοήνης Βιήνχι ̣ -?- χα(ίρειν).
3	ἀπέχομεν παρὰ σοῦ τέλος ὧν̣ ἰσ(?)-ηγαγ(ες)
4	οἴνου̣ λαγύνων τεσσεράκοντα πέντα̣ι̣
5	(γίνονται) με̅. ὁμοίως (πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν) ὀγδοήκοντα, (γίνονται) (πυροῦ ἄρταβαι) π̣̅,
6	-?- ̣ν ἴκοσι πένται. ἄλλo σε̣ι̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
7	-?- ̣̅ τοῦ ἴχνους β̅. (ἔτους) α̅ Νέρουα Καίσα̣ρ̣ος τ̣οῦ
8	κυρίου, Χοιαχ ιζ̅.

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1	Pompeius Valens and his partners, tax farmers of the 2% tax
2	of the harbour of Syene, to Bienchis ---, greeting.
3	We have recieved from you the tax for goods you have imported,
4	forty five jars of wine,
5	= 45. Ditto, eighty artabas of wheat, = 80 art.
6	---- 25 another ---
7	--- of the desert road, 2. In the first year of Nerva Caesar the
8	lord, Choiak 17.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
40590	man	Bienchis, son of Pachnoumis (Trajan, customs)	Πίηνχι Παχνούμεως	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nerva	01	Choiak	17	96 December 13 CE	date in text;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317767
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 317767 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1479), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.