Ostr. Berlin P. 12273

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12273
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)	Rubensohn, Otto (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 1906 and 1907
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)	Last line faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire main surface of the potsherd, with a very small margin on the right side. The left and lower crotches remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	79	0
Column Height (in mm)	55	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	79 x 55	0

Modern Title	Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petosorsmetis, son of Petephaus
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Petosorsmetis, son of Pachnoumis-Bienchis, is confirmed of having paid the rate for the poll tax for the 10th regnal year in an amount of 4 stater. Identificatin of the scribe nby the hand
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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1	r.wṱ n Pꜣ-šr-Wsı͗r-ns-mtr
2	sꜣ Pa-H̱nm-By-ꜥnḫ ẖr pꜣ ḥḏ
3	ꜥpe n ḥsb.t 10.t n Tbꜣrys
4	Glwṱys Gsyrw Sbsṱ
5	Grmnqws ¹The letter w is vertically bulged because of being placed below the q. ꜣwtgrṱr
6	ı͗bd 4 šmw sw ꜥrwı͗ sttr 4.t

¹ The letter w is vertically bulged because of being placed below the q.

1	That which was paid cash by Petosorsmetis,
2	son of Pachnoumis-Bienchis, for the poll
3	tax for the 10th regnal year of Tiberius
4	Claudius Caesar Augustus
5	Germanicus Imperator,
6	30th of Mesore: 4 stater

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8125	man	imperator 04 Claudius: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus	Tbwrys Glwṱys / Glwṱes Gsyrs Sbsṱ Grmnqs Κλαυδίος Καίσ]αρòος	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Claudius	10	Mesore	19	50 August 10 CE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100214
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 100214 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12273), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.