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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 10776 |
Publication Number | O.Varia 18 |
Current Location | magazine |
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 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, red brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 63 mm | 111 mm | 10 mm |
Dating | between -250 and |
Criteria for Dating | date in text |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Surface partly abraded in the lower half. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Comments on Object | In the inventory book the second language Demotic is not mentioned. |
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 | Greek | |
Script, additional A | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Greek, Ancient | |
Language, additional A | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text is geared to the right sloping edge, wih an equal and small margin. The Greek text is left-aligend. The upper left crotch and a smalls triß at the bottom remain uninscribed. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4+1 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 88 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 56 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 88 x 56 | 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 | Pelaias, son of Imouthes, and his wife Tanoutis are confirmed by Doros of having paid the salt tax for the 34th regnal year in an amount of 1 drachma and 3 obols. Demotic countersignature of Petepiphis. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | Demotic subscripton: Issuer and amount of money in Egyptian currency. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Bilingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: tax payer - Identifier of woman: wife of a man |
Religion | unknown |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
4290 | man | Doros (logeutes) | Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου) | Greek, Ancient |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 35 | Payni | 10 | -250 July 27 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100239 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Berlpap | 02883 |
Trismegistos | 3014 |
Papyri.info | ddbdp/o.vleem;;18 |
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 100239 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10776), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek). |