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Ostr. Berlin P. 12151

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12151
Publication Number	ined. P. 12151
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963)
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)	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 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, red
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	57 mm | 86 mm | 14 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	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)	Partially faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small margins on all sides. The lower left crotch is used for the Greek subscription.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	0
Column Height (in mm)	50	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 50	0

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis Phatres, son of Hartophnachtes
Text Types	documentary | receipt
Summary of Content	Tachnoumis, daughter of Belles, is confirmed by Phatres, son of Hartophnachthes, of having paid the salt tax for the 32nd regnal year in an amount of ¼ kite. Greek subscription.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Subscription in Greek: tax type, amount in Greek currency (3 obols).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Inventory book mentioning the Greek text.
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man and of her husband

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12090	woman	Tachnoumis, daughter of Belles, the wife of Patous	Ta-H̱nm ta Br tꜣ rmṯ.t Pa-tꜣ.wı͗	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	32	Payni	11	-253 July 28 BCE	Internal dating, without name of the ruler.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	100235
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	09987
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 100235 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12151), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).