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Ostr. Berlin P. [without no.]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. [without no.]
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory Only known by publication + facsimile of S. Wangstedt. It was not possible to detect the ostracon within the Berlin collection until now. Therefore it maybe realiter does not belong to this collection, but Wangstedt confused something. This can currently not be clearified. (J. Moje)
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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

Object Type ostracon
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 45 mm | 96 mm | mm
Dating of Object [unknown]
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, only slighly damages of the edges.
Mounting [unknown]

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
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, without upper and lateral margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 90 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 90 x 30 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Teos, son of Petamounis, is confirmed by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis, on declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris, of having paid the yoke tax for the 7th regnal year in an amount of 1 kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Ḏd-ḥr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn ḥḏ qd 1 ḥḏ nḥb .t n ḥsb.t 7
2n-ḏr.t 1The following is according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 669. Wångsted red Ḥr-wḏꜣ sꜣ Ns--?- r ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ḥr. Ḥr-nfr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty r ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Ḥr ḥsb.t 8
3ı͗bd 2 ꜣḫ.t sw 8

1 The following is according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 669. Wångsted red Ḥr-wḏꜣ sꜣ Ns--?- r ḫrw Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ḥr.
convex
1Thus has brought Teos, son of Peteamounis 1 (silver) kite for the yoke tax of the 7th regnal year.
2Issued by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis, on declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris. 8th regnal year,
38th of Phaophi.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8370 man Pachnoumis, son of Payris Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 08 Phaophi 08 -278 December 4 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100249
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 51648
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100249 (= Ostr. Berlin P. [without no.]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.