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Ostr. Berlin P. 10821

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 10821
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1963)
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) 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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 79 mm | 69 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Outside surface damaged on several spots, especially in the lower section. Inside surface extensive chipped.
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) Partly heavily faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text covers the entire surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. The upper right and the lower middle crotch remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content ..?.. is confirmed of having paid the poll tax for the 20 regnal year in an amount of 4 stater.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Im Inventarbuch Handabschrift der 1. Zeile.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1r.wṱ
2ẖr ḥḏ n ꜥpe (n) ḥsb.t 20 Tbrys
3Gysrs Sbsṱs
4ı͗bd 4 šmw sw ꜥrqı͗ sttr 4
5///
6///
7///
1Thus has paid ..?..
2for the poll tax for the 20th regnal year of Tiberius
3Caesar Augustus,
430th of Mesore: 4 stater.
5⸢///⸣
6⸢///⸣
7⸢///⸣
P_10821_aussen
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P_10821_innen
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31020 man ..?.., son of ..?.. (P 10821) ..?.. sꜣ ..?.. (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Tiberius 20 mesore 30 34 February 22 CE Internal dating, with name of the ruler. Dating by content. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

P_10821_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_10821_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100221
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 100221 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10821), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.