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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12912 |
Publication Number | ined. P. 12912 |
Current Location | missing |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
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) | Zucker, Friedrich (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 1907 and 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, medium brown |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Formerly 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 | [unknown] | |
Comments on Text Layout | [unknown] 3 l. Demotic, 1 l. Greek | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 3+1 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 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 | Tax receipt, presumably salt tax. Greek subscription: Name of tax collector. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Greek subscription: Name of tax collector. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Im Inventarbuch Abschrift der Datierung. |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
1 The Berlin inventory book gives the date in a hand facsimile.
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Places (read out from edition) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 31 | Epeiph | 09 | -254 August 26 BCE | Internal dating, without name of the ruler.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 100234 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Berlpap | 10489 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100234 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12912), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |