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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1884

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1884
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Publication Status unpublished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 250
Criteria for Dating palaeography
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,
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the amphodopraktores ---, for time demosiou phoinikos of year 1 of an unknown ruler, with signature or second hand
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 -?- ̣? καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἀμφοδο̣πρ(άκτορες)
2ἀργ(υρικῶν) Ἐλεφ(αντίνης). διέγ(ραψεν -?- ̣μητις ὑπὲρ τιμῆς δημοσίου
3φοί(νικος) ὀνό(ματος)? -?- λήμματος α (ἔτους) δραχ-
4μὴν μίαν ὀβολοὺς πέντε, (γίνονται) (δραχμὴ) α (πεντώβολον).
5(ἔτους) β, -?- ̣ ϛ̅ (2. H.) σ̣ε̣σ̣η̣μίωμαι
6 -?- ω̣ντο̣υ Ἡ̣ρα̣κλη̣?
convex
1--- and his associate district collectors
2of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid ---metis for the price of public
3dates, on account? ---, for the accounting of year 1, dracha
4one obols five, = 1 dr. 5 ob.
5Year 2, --- 6. I have signed,
6---ontes, son of Herakl(?)
OGL_1884_S1_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
02 200 CE 250 CE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

OGL_1884_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317825
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 317825 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 1884), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.