Ostr. Berlin P. 12940

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12940
Publication Number	ined. P. 12940
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	Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad and equal margins on all sides.
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Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Sintaes, daughter of Phaus, is confirmed by Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis, of having paid the salt tax for the 31st regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Subscription in Greek: Issuer.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Subscription in Greek: Issuer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Hand copy of one Demotic line in the inventory book, together with the Greek text.
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man

Transcription

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1	ı͗n Tꜣ-šr(.t)-(n)-tꜣ-ı͗ḥ.t ta Pꜣ-ḥwṱ ḥḏ
2	qd ¼ (n) ḥḏ (n) ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 31 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t
3	(sꜣ) Pa-H̱nm ḥsb.t 31 ı͗bd 4 šmw sw 2

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4	διὰ Πετεπιφι

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1	Thus has brought Sintaes, daughter of Phaus,
2	¼ silver kite (for) the salt tax (for) the 31st regnal year. Issued by Petepiphis,
3	(son) of Pachnoumis. 31st regnal year, 2nd of Mesore.
4	Through Petepiphis.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11580	woman	Sintaes, daughter of Phaus	Tꜣ.šr.t-n-tꜣ-ıḥ.t ta Pꜣ-ḥwt	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	31	Mesore	02	-254 September 18 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	100217
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	10491
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 100217 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12940), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).