Ostr. Berlin P. 12945

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12945
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
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	56 mm \| 72 mm \| 9 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Slight damages of the surface in the upper right section.
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)	Beginnings of the first lines slightly damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small but equal margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	0
Column Height (in mm)	48	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	70 x 48	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Schesbet, son of Pouoptis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Belles, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Schesbet, son of Pouoptis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 36th regnal year in an amount of ½ 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

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1	ı͗n Br sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
2	ḥḏ qd ½ n ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 36 nty ı͗r ḥsb.t 37 ¹This double date can also be found on Ostr. Louvre ODL 316: Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 37 no. 316. He assumes that the first date means the Egyptian regnal year counting, the second the financial year.
3	²The readings of the first part of this line eludes me. n-ḏr.t Šsbṱ
4	sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ r-ḫrw n Ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗y-m-ḥtp
5	n ḥsb.t 36 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 10

¹ This double date can also be found on Ostr. Louvre ODL 316: Devauchelle, O. Louvre Dem. (1983), 37 no. 316. He assumes that the first date means the Egyptian regnal year counting, the second the financial year.
² The readings of the first part of this line eludes me.

1	Thus has brought Belles, son of Espmetis,
2	½ silver kite for the compulsory labor tax for the 36th regnal year, which is the 37th regnal year
3	⸢..?..⸣ Issued by Schesbet,
4	son of Pouoptis, on declaration of Horos, son of Petimouthes,
5	in the 36th regnal year, 10th of Pachons.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12595	man	Belles, son of Espmetis	Br sꜢ Ns-pꜣ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	36	Pachons	10	-249 June 26 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100200
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 100200 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12945), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.