Ostr. Berlin P. 12198

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12198
Publication Number	O.Varia 27
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963)
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
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 26 12 1906 and 26 12 1907
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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, dark red
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	102 mm \| 82 mm \| 17 mm
Dating	between -231 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Complete, only the rims are slightly damaged.
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)	Heavily faded.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand of Doros demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd. The lower haldf remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+1	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	80	0
Column Height (in mm)	52	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	80 x 52	0

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes) Spotous, son of Patous
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	Pelaias, son of Pamounis, and his wife Tisatis are confirmed by an unnamed person, presumably Doros, of having paid the salt tax and the liturgy tax for the 16th regnal year in an amount of 4 obols and 2 drachmas. Demotic countersignature of Spotous, son of Patous, as to be judged from the hand.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Demotic subscription: issuer.
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

Transcription

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1	(ἔτους) ιϛ Τῦβι κ̅γ̅ τέτακται Π̣α̣λαί-
2	ας Πα̣μ̣ο̣ύνιος ἁλικ̣ῆς (τετρώβολον),
3	Συηνιτοῦ λογείας ¹This tax Συηνιτῶν λογείας is so far sedom attested in other Elephantine texts. Cf. Vleeming, Ostraka Varia (1994), Nr. 25. (δραχμὰς) β, Τ̣ισᾶ̣τ̣ι̣-
4	ς γυνὴ (ὀβολὸν) (ἡμιωβέλιον).

¹ This tax Συηνιτῶν λογείας is so far sedom attested in other Elephantine texts. Cf. Vleeming, Ostraka Varia (1994), Nr. 25.

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5	sẖ Ns-pꜣy=w-tꜣ.wı͗͗ sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wı͗ ¹Restauration by Jan Moje, according to palaeography and prosopography

¹ Restauration by Jan Moje, according to palaeography and prosopography

1	16th regnal year, 23rd of Tybi. Thus have paid Pelai-
2	as, son of Pamounis, for the salt tax: 4 obols;
3	for the liturgy tax: 2 drachmas; Tisatis,
4	his wife: 1 ½ obols.
5	Countersigned by Spotous, son of Patous.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
1465	man	Pelaias, son of Pamounis	Π̣α̣λαίας Πα̣μ̣ο̣ύνιος	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	16	Tybi	23	-231 March 7 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100244
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03437
Trismegistos	3023
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.vleem;;27
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100244 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12198), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); BerlPap-Team, Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).