Ostr. Berlin P. 12963

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12963
Publication Number	ined. p. 12963
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

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
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the left half of the surface of the potsherd, with a very broad right margin, but very small upper and left margins. The lower crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	72	0
Column Height (in mm)	30	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	72 x 30	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Espmetis, son of Petechonsis Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Peteyris, son of Teos
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pamenis, son of Eschnoumis, is confirmed by Espmetis, son of Petechonsis, of having paid the salt tax for the 30th regnal year in an amount of ⅓ kite and ½ obol. Countersignature of Peteyris, son of Teos. Subscription in Greek mentioning the tax farmer Petepiphis.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Subscription in Greek: Tax farmer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	ı͗n Pa-Mn sꜣ Ns-H̱nm ḥḏ qd ⅓ ḏbꜥ.t ½ n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ
2	n ḥsb.t 30 n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḫnsw n ḥsb.t 30 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 18

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3	διὰ Πετεπιφ

4	sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḏd-Ḥr

1	Thus has brought Pamenis, son of Eschnoumis, ⅓ silver kite and ½ obol for the salt tax
2	for the 30th regnal year. Issued by Espmetis, son of Petechonsis, in the 30th regnal year, 18th of Epeiph.
3	Through Petepiphis.
4	Coutersigned by Peteyris, son of Teos.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11695	man	Pamenis, son of Eschnoumis	Pa-Mn sꜣ Ns-Hnm	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	30	Epeiph	18	-255 September 4 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100210
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 100210 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12963), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).