Ostr. Berlin P. 12154

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12154
Publication Number	ined. P. 12154
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, red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	80 mm \| 71 mm \| 10 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Outside surface damaged on one spot.
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)	2nd and 3rd line partially 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 on to the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. Both the upper right as well as the lower middle crotch remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	69	0
Column Height (in mm)	58	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	69 x 58	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Thotortaios, son of Esyris, is confirmed by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis, of having paid the salt tax for the 28th regnal year in an amount of ⅓ kite and 4 obols. Greek subscription.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Subscription in Greek: tax farmer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Inventory book mentioning the Greek text.
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	ı͗n Ḏḥwtı͗-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Ns–Ḥr ḥnꜥ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗
2	ḥḏ (qd) ⅓ ḏbꜥ.t 5 (n) ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 28 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr
3	ḥsb.t 29 ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 17.t sẖ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-pp.t sꜣ Pa-H̱nm

4	διὰ Πετεπίφιος

1	Thus have brought Thotortaios, son of Esyris, and Pathothes
2	⅓ silver (kite) and 4 obols (for) the salt tax (for) the 28th regnal year. Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis.
3	29th regnal year, 17th of Thoth. Countersigned: Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis.
4	Through Petepiphis.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12100	man	Pathotes	Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	29	Thoth	17	-257 November 7 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100218
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	09984
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 100218 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12154), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).