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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. |