Ostr. Berlin P. 12960

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12960
Current Location	missing
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
Dating of Object	[unknown]
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete.
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)	Once complete. Today missing.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	[unknown]
Comments on Text Layout	[unknown]
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	0	0
Column Height (in mm)	0	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	unknown	0

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for a lost tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	Espnetsenis is confirmed of having paid ¼ kite for a tax. This information derives from the hand copy in the inventory book, the rest of the text is unknown because the object is missing today.
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

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1	¹The first line is given after the hand drawing of the first part of the first line in the inventory book. A photo is not known from this object missing since 1945.ı͗n Ns-Pꜣ-nty-Sny ḥḏ qd ¼ -lost-
2	-lost-
3	-lost-
4	-lost-

¹ The first line is given after the hand drawing of the first part of the first line in the inventory book. A photo is not known from this object missing since 1945.

convex

1	Thus has brought Espnetsnis ¼ silver kite -lost-
2	-lost-
3	-lost-
4	-lost-

P_12960_Inventarbuch

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11690	man	Espnetsenis	Ns-Pꜣ-nty-Sny	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	;

Pictures

P_12960_Inventarbuch

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100216
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 100216 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12960), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.