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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2081

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Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2081
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Publication Status	unpublished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 30 and 31
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at 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 bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Petorzmethis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax (laographia)
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for poll tax of year 17 of Tiberius, written by the bilingual scribe Petorzmethis, paid by Psenpoueris
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	διακεγράφηκ̣ε̣ ¹l. διαγεγράφηκεν
2	Ψενπουηρι ²l. Ψενπούηριςὑπὲρ λαγραφίας ³l. λαογραφίας
3	τοῦ ιζ (ἔτους) Τειβερίου ⁴l. Τιβ̣ερίου
4	Καίσαρος
5	Σεβαστὸς ⁵l. Σεβαστοῦ
6	ἀργυρίου (δραχμὰς) ὀ̣κτώ,
7	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

¹ l. διαγεγράφηκεν
² l. Ψενπούηρις
³ l. λαογραφίας
⁴ l. Τιβ̣ερίου
⁵ l. Σεβαστοῦ

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1	Thus has paid
2	Psenpoueris for poll tax
3	of year 17 of Tiberius
4	Caesar
5	Augustus
6	silver drachmas eight,
7	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
40390	man	Psenpoueris (Tiberius)	Ψενπουηρι	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Tiberius	17			30 CE 31 CE	date in text;

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OGL_2081_S1_001

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Literature

Duttenhöfer, Ruth, A Bilingual Scribe in Early Roman Tax Receipts from Elephantine (2021). ()

DatasetID	317867
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 317867 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2081), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.