Ostr. Berlin P. 10810

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 10810
Publication Number	O.Varia 29
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

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Partly faded.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand of Doros demotic
Comments on Text Layout	The Greek text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with equal margins. The Demotic line was written with some interspace on the lower half.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+1	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	61	0
Column Height (in mm)	42	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	61 x 42	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Pasbet
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Palaias, his wife Tamounis and his son Harnouphis are confirmed presumably by Doros of having paid the salt tax for the 25. regnal year in an amount of 4 obols and 1½ obols. Demotic countersignature of Pasbet.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscripton: Issuer, date.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man son also mentioned as taxpayer
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	(ἔτους) κε Τῦβι κζ τέτα-
2	κται Π̣α̣λαίας ἁλι-
3	κῆς (τετρώβολον) Ταμουν̣ι̣ γυνὴ (όβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον).
4	Ἁρνοῦ̣φις υἱὸς (τετρώβολον)

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5	sẖ Pa-sbṱ ¹Cf. the note in Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 245. ı͗bd 1 pr.t sw 27 ²For the reading of the day cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 246.

¹ Cf. the note in Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 245.
² For the reading of the day cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 246.

1	25th regnal year, 25th of Tybi. Thus have paid
2	Pelaias for the salt
3	tax: 4 obols; Tamounis, his wife: 1½ obols;
4	Harnouphis, his son: 4 obols.
5	Countersigned by Pasbet. 27th of Tybi.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4298	man	Harnouphis (, son of Pelaias)	Ἀρνοῦφις	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	25	Tybi	27	-222 March 9 BCE	date in text, corr. by Clarysse-Thompson;

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DatasetID	100229
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02891
Trismegistos	3025
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.vleem;;29
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 100229 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10810), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).