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Ostr. Berlin P. 10814

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 10814
Publication Number O.Varia 20
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1963. 1985)
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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) 45 mm | 54 mm | 6 mm
Dating between -249 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
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) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Script, additional A Greek
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, middle demotic cursive greek: ptolemaic cursive, hand of Doros
Comments on Text Layout The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd All Demotic line beginnings are very close to the right rim. The Greek line was placed slightly oblique, geared to the lower rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 49 0
Column Height (in mm) 37 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 49 x 37 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Maygebte, wife of Harpaesis, is confirmed by Petobastis, son of Esyris, of having paid the salt tax for the 36th regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Greek subscription.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) Greek subscripton: Doros, amount in Greek currency (3 obols).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Mr-ı͗ꜣb.t tꜣ rmṯ.t (n) Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t 1Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 245. ḥḏ (qd) ¼
2n ḥḏ ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 36 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
3n ḥsb.t 36 ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 14

1 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 245.
convex
4διὰ Δώρου (τριώβολον).
convex
1Thus has brought Maigebte, the wife of Harpaesis, ¼ silver (kite)
2for the salt tax for the 36th regnal year. Issued by Petobastis, son of Esyris,
3in the 36th regnal year, 14th of Pachons.
4Through Doros 3 obols.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4290 man Doros (logeutes) Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου) Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 36 Pachons 14 -249 June 30 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100225
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 02895
Trismegistos 3016
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.vleem;;20
Author Jan Moje (Demotic); BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100225 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10814), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).