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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 |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, medium brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 79 mm | 91 mm | 5 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) | 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 | |
Text Types |
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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 | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 The letter w is vertically bulged because of being placed below the q. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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.; |
previousely unpublished
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. |