Ostr. Berlin P. 12959

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12959
Publication Number	ined. P. 12959
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, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	72 mm \| 73 mm \| 7 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete. Only a slight damage of the left rim near the beginning of the (Greek) line 4.
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)	Line beginnings slightly damaged.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. The upper and lower right crotches remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	60	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	60 x 35	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Tairou, the mother of Pamounis, is confirmed by Peteyris, son of Harnouophis, of having paid the salt tax for the 21st regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Countersigned by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis. Greek subscription with issuer.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Subscription in Greek: Name of issuer repeated in Greek transliteration.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Hand copy of one line in the inventory book, without mention of the Greek line.
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: mother of a man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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	ı͗n Ta-ı͗r=w tꜣ mw.t Pa-I͗mn ¹I am indebted to G. Vittmann on information concerning this name and its unusual identification (Email 16th July, 2014). This version is unique in the Demotic Elephantine corpus, but the heavily destroyed sign should be read ads tꜣ, while the following group cannot be read other than mw.t, because dnı͗.t would make no sense here. ḥḏ qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
2	(n) ḥsb.t 21 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr ḥsb.t 21.t
3	ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 16 sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t (sꜣ) Pa-H̱nm ḥḏ qd ¼

¹ I am indebted to G. Vittmann on information concerning this name and its unusual identification (Email 16th July, 2014). This version is unique in the Demotic Elephantine corpus, but the heavily destroyed sign should be read ads tꜣ, while the following group cannot be read other than mw.t, because dnı͗.t would make no sense here.

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4	διὰ Πετεπιφ

1	Thus has brought Tairou, the mother of Pamounis, ¼ silver kite for the salt tax
2	(for) the 21st regnal year. Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis. 21st regnal year,
3	16th of Mesore. Countersigned: Petepiphis, (son) of Pachnoumis. ¼ silver kite.
4	Through Petepiphis.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1745	man	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis	PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος)	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	21	Mesore	16	-264 October 4 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100209
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100209 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12959), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).