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Ostr. Berlin P. 12914

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12914
Publication Number dem. ined P. 12914
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, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 71 mm | 102 mm | 9 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, surface raw.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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 Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 90 0
Column Height (in mm) 66 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 90 x 66 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax (double)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Two persons whose names are illegible are confirmed by Pelaias of having paid the salt tax for the 11th regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite each.
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
1ı͗n ḥḏ (qd) ¼ (n) ḥḏ (n) ḥmꜣ(?)
2(n) ḥsb.t 11
3ı͗n ḥḏ (qd) ¼ n ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 11
4ḥsb.t 11 ı͗bd 2 n-ḏr.t 1Here the scribe filled up his brush anew. Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ
5

1 Here the scribe filled up his brush anew.
1Thus has brought ⸢..?..⸣ ¼ silver (kite) for the salt(?) tax
2(for) the 11th regnal year. ⸢..?..⸣
3Thus has brought ⸢..?..⸣ ¼ silver (kite) for the salt(?) tax for the 11th regnal year.
411th regnal year, 2nd month [///]. Issued by Pelaias ⸢..?..⸣
5⸢..?..⸣
P_12914_aussen
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P_12914_innen
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P_12914_S1_002
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12280 man ⸢..?..⸣ (P. 12914, tax payer a) ⸢..?..⸣ (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 11 -237 BCE -236 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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P_12914_innen
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P_12914_S1_002
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100194
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 100194 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12914), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.