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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2094

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2094
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Publication Status	unpublished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 146 and 147
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at right and 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 right and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for trade tax (χειρωναξίου)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pachompsachis scribe
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Soene through Pachompsachis, assistant, for trade tax, paid by Patsibtis, son of Petorzmethis and Senpelaia.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	Ζήνων Ἡρ̣ακ(λείδου) μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερᾶς
2	πύλης Σοήνης δ̣ιὰ Παχομ-
3	ψᾶχις βοηθοῦ. διέγρα(ψεν) Πά-
4	τσειβδις Πετορζμήθ(ου)
5	μητρὸς Θιν̣πελαίας
6	ὑπὲρ χειρω(ναξίου) ι (ἔτους) -?-
7	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

convex

1	Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred
2	Gate of Syene, through Pachom-
3	psachis, assistant. Thus has paid Pa-
4	tsibdis, son of Petorzmethis
5	and the mother Thinpelaia,
6	for trade tax of year 10 ---
7	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

OGL_2094_S1_001

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12740	man	Pachompsachis scribe	Παχομψᾶχις boethos	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Antoninus Pius	10			146 CE 147 CE	date in text;

Pictures

OGL_2094_S1_001

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	317871
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 317871 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 2094), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.