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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12950 |
Publication Number | dem. ined p. 12950 |
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, yellow brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 69 mm | 104 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) | Partly faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with small upper and lateral margins. The lower half as well as the lower right crotch remain uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 100 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 32 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 100 x 32 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Tapmetis, daughter of Pamenis, son of Esthotes, is confirmed by Schesbet of having paid the salt tax for the 38th 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 Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man, additionally with his father |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
11570 | woman | Tapmetis, daughter of Pasenis, son of Esthothes | Ta-pꜣ-mtr ta Pa-sny sꜣ Ns-Ḏḥwtı | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 38 | Payni | 18 | -247 August 3 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 100203 |
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 100203 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12950), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |