Ostr. Berlin P. 12230

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12230
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

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

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	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad margins on all sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	54	0
Column Height (in mm)	25	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	54 x 25	0

Modern Title	receipt for compulsory labor tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis, is confirmed by Belles, son of Stamnaichnoumis, of having paid the compulsory labor tax for the 11th 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

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1	¹Transcription and translation by Jan Moje. ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
2	ḥḏ qd 1 (n) ꜥrṱ n ḥsb.t 11 n-ḏr.t Br
3	sꜣ Sḏm.n=y-H̱nm ḥsb.t 11 ı͗bd 3(?) /// sw 17

¹ Transcription and translation by Jan Moje.

1	Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis,
2	1 silver kite for the compulsory labor tax for the 11th regnal year. Issued by Belles,
3	son of Stamnaichnoumis. 11th regnal year, 17th of ⸢///⸣.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12105	man	Pachnoumis, son of Espmetis (P.12230)	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	11	Third Month of ?	17	-272 January 10 BCE -272 September 7 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	300012
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 300012 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12230), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.