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Ostr. Berlin P. 10752

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 10752
Publication Number	O.Varia 16 (BGU VI 1326)
Current Location	missing | since 1985
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
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

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between -251 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	piece missing; broken at lower right corner?

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Broken at lower right corner
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, early ptolemaic; not seen, piece missing.
Comments on Text Layout	5 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary | receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of the banker Alexis of the bank of Syene for salt tax, paid by Harpaesis.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	???corr. l. 5?: 26, 5 ob. surcharge?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4001	man	Alexis	Αλεξις	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	35	Pharmuthi	26	-251 June 17 BCE	date in text, dating according to the financial year;

 

Literature

• Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (A3)
• Schubart, Wilhelm & Kühn, Ernst, BGU VI: Papyri und Ostraka der Ptolemäerzeit (1922). (no. 1326)
• Vleeming, Sven P., Ostraka Varia: Tax receipts and legal documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, chiefly of the early Ptolemaic period, from various collections (1994). (no. 16)

 

DatasetID	2879
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	02879
Trismegistos	3012
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.vleem;;16
Author	BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 2879 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10752), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.