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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12937 |
| Publication Number | dem. ined. P 12937 |
| 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, grey |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 80 mm | 109 mm | 7 mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. |
| 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) | Nearly completely faded. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 0 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | [unknown] | 0 |
| Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
| Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Espmetis, son of [///], is confirmed by ⸢..?..⸣ of having paid the salt tax for a lost regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. |
| 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 |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 11625 | man | Espmetis, son of [///] (P. 12937) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ [///] | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 20ff. | -265 BCE -246 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
| P_12937_aussen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_12937_innen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 100119 |
| 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 100119 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12937), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
