Ostr. Berlin P. 40
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 40 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Comments on Inventory |
registered as existing during revision (1963) |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication assigned |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance Details |
"from the rubbish of the settlement" |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery |
purchase
Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) |
Erman, Adolf
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 |
(other) |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution |
between 1886 and 1886 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Erman, Adolf
Certainty: high |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, grey brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
40 mm | 73 mm | 11 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
The left part is broken off. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
| Restoration Activities |
Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
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) |
The endings of line 1-2 broken off in undetermined extent. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Medium line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, without upper and lateral margins. All line beginnings geared to the slanted right rim. The lower third remains uninscribed.unten ein schmaler unbeschrifteter Bereich. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
3 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
73 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
40 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
73+y x 40 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for delivery of liquids and seeds |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Petepelaias, son of Pete⸢..?..⸣, is confirmed by Pelaias, son of Psenpoeris, of having delivered liquids and castor oil seeds. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
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1 | | Thus what has brought Petepelaias, (son) of Pete⸢..?..⸣: [///] |
2 | | 3 hin, ½ (artabas of) castor oil seeds ⸢..?..⸣[///]. |
3 | | Issued by Pelaias, son of Psenpoeris.
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Dates
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Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
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-246 BCE -222 BCE |
Dating by palaeography. Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.; |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
300016 |
| 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 300016 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 40), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
