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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12923 |
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 | 83 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) | Complete, partly 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, while the lower left crotch remains 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 nḥṱ.t tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the nḥṱ.t tax for the 19th regnal year in an amount of 1 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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
6960 | man | Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis | Br sꜢ Sḏm-n=y-H̱nm | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 19 | Mesore | 22 | -266 October 12 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 100196 |
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 100196 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12923), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |