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Ostr. Berlin P. 12912

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, medium brown
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Formerly complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax(?)
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1 Demotic. lost
2Demotic. lost
3Demotic. lost ḥsb.t 31 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 9 1The Berlin inventory book gives the date in a hand facsimile.

1 The Berlin inventory book gives the date in a hand facsimile.
convex

4 διὰ Πετεπίφι
1[Demotic. lost]
2[Demotic. lost]
3[Demotic. lost] 31st regnal year, 9th of Epeiph.
4Through Petepiphis.
P_12912_Inventarbuch
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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.;

 

Pictures

P_12912_Inventarbuch
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

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.