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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1838

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1838
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Publication Status unpublished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 -200 and -30
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top

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 top
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for harvest tax of granary (epigraphe)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the granary of Syene for harvest tax (epigraphe), paid by Ammonios, son of Ammonios and grandson of Epikrates, signed by Hermogenes (sitologos)
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1εἰσμεμετρη(κεν)
x+2εἰς τὸν̣ ἐν Συήνῃ θησαυρὸν εἰς̣
x+3τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν τοῦ αὐτοῦ (ἔτους)
x+4ὑπὲρ τοῦ τόπου
x+5Ἀμμώνιος Ἀ̣μ̣μωνίου
x+6Ἐπικράτους (πυροῦ ἀρτάβης) η´ (γίνεται) η´.
x+7Ἑρμογένης η̣´
convex
x– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1Has measured
x+2to the granary in Syene for
x+3the harvest tax of the same year
x+4for his land
x+5Ammonios, son of Ammonios,
x+6grandson of Epikrates, wheat 1/8 artaba, = 1/8.
x+7Hermogenes 1/8.
OGL_1838_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
40570 man Ammonios, son of Ammonios, grandson of Epikrates Ἀμμώνιος Ἀ̣μ̣μωνίου Ἐπικράτους Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-200 BCE -30 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

OGL_1838_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317801
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 317801 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1838), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.