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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 |
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 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]) |
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 |
Modern Title | receipt for salt tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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 |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 245.
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
4290 | man | Doros (logeutes) | Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου) | Greek, Ancient |
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; |
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). |