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Ostr. Berlin P. 12937

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Metadata

Collection

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

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) 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

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])

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ns-pꜣ-mtr (sꜣ)
2ḥḏ (qd) ¼ n ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ ḥsb.t
3n-ḏr.t ḥsb.t
1Thus has brought Espmetis, son of [///],
2¼ kite for the salt tax for the ..?..th regnal year.
3Issued by..?.., ..?..th regnal year ..?.. .
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11625 man Espmetis, son of [///] (P. 12937) Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ [///] pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

P_12937_aussen
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P_12937_innen
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Literature

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.