Ostr. Berlin P. 10806

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 10806
Publication Number	O.Varia 21
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, light brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	71 mm \| 78 mm \| 7 mm
Dating	between -248 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Surface partly damaged at the upper left and the middle right rim.
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, partial lost of beginning line 1 and end line 3 by damage of the surface
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown demotic: Peteyris
Comments on Text Layout	Winde line pitch. The whole text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd. Only the lower left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	67	0
Column Height (in mm)	61	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	67 x 61	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Peteyris, son of Harnouphis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Imouthes is confirmed by Asklepiades of having paid the salt tax for the 37th regnal year in an amount of 4 drachmas for at least four men. Demotic subscription of Peteyris.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscriptiopn: tax type, payer, date, issuer.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	(ἔτους) λ̣ζ Χοιὰχ ιδ πέπτωκεν
2	Ἀσκληπιάδει τραπεζίτηι
3	ἁλικῆς Ἰμούθου ¹l. Ἰμούθηςεἰς τὸ λ̣ζ (ἔτους)
4	(δραχμὰς) τέσσαρας

¹ l. Ἰμούθης

convex

5	pꜣ dnı͗ (n) ḥmꜣ (n) ḥsb.t 36 (n)-ḏr.t I͗y-m-ḥtp sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
6	ḥḏ qd 2 n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr
7	(n) ḥsb.t 37 ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 14 .

convex

1	37th year, 14th of Choiak. Thus has paid
2	to Asklepiades, the banker,
3	for the salt tax Imouthes for the 37th year
4	four drachmas.
5	The salt tax for the 36th regnal year, by Imouthes, son of Esyris:
6	2 silver kite. Issued by Peteyris, son of Harnouphis,
7	(in the) 37th regnal year, 14th of Choiak.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4016	man	Asklepiades P 10806	Ἀσκληπιάδης	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	37	Choiak	14	-248 January 31 BCE	date in text, financial year in Greek text;

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DatasetID	100226
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02888
Trismegistos	3017
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.vleem;;21
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 100226 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10806), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).