Ostr. Berlin P. 12964

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12964
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

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)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) 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	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1907 and 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	94 mm \| 114 mm \| 4 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The right part is broken off. Heavy damage of the surface in the central section.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Heavily faded, partially lost due to surface damage. All line beginnings lost.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text was apparently placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with very broad margins on the three preserved sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	98	0
Column Height (in mm)	47	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	98 x 47	0

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax ( laographia)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Petosorsmetis, son of Petosorsmetis, is confirmed by Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus of having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 5th regnal year, in a lost amount.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	r.wṱ ⸢Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r⸣-ns-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ n ꜥpe.t
2	n ḥsb.t 5.t n Nrn Glwts Gsyrs
3	Sbsṱ Grmnqs ꜣwtgrṱr
4	ı͗bd 4 pr.t sw 17 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr
5	sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗--pꜣ-ḥwṱ

1	That which was paid cash by Petosorsmetis, [son of Petosorsmetis], for the poll tax
2	for the 5th regnal year of Nero Claudius Caesar
3	Augustus Germanicus Imperator
4	17th of Pharmouthi. Issued by Petosorsmetis,
5	[son of Pete]phaus.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
7680	man	Imperator 05 Nero: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus	NꜢrwn Glwṱys Gsyrs/Kysrs Sbst Grmnqs; Νέρωνος Καίσαρος	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Nero	05	Pharmuthi	17	59 April 10 CE	internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100100
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100100 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12964), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.