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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12913 |
| 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, medium brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 61 mm | 92 mm | 8 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Heavily faded. | |
| Script, Primary | Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the middle part of the surface of the potsherd, with only very small lateral margins. The upper part as well as the lower crotch remain uninscribed. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 0 | |
| Modern Title | receipt for a lost tax |
| Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Espmetis is confirmed by Espmetis, son of Peteyris, of having paid a lost tax for the 20th regnal year in an amount of 8 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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| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 12265 | man | Espmetis (P. 12913) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 20 | Tybi | 30 | -265 March 22 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
| P_12913_aussen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_12913_innen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 100193 |
| 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 100193 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12913), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
