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Ostr. Berlin P. 12212

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12212
Publication Number	O.Varia 11A (BGU VI 1355)
Current Location	magazine
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
Color	pottery, dark brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	43 mm | 80 mm | 12 mm
Dating	between -275 and 225
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Doros
Comments on Text Layout	4 lines, other side uninscribed
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for the price of beer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Doros (logeutes)
Text Types	documentary | receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for the price of beer for two months, paid by Osoroeris; written by Doros.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4290	man	Doros (logeutes)	Δῶρος (partly gen. Δώρου)	Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
		Mecheir	01	-274 BCE -225 BCE	palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

• Clarysse, Willy & Thompson, D.J., The Salt-Tax Rate Once Again (1995). (228)
• Muhs, Brian, Tax Receipts, Taxpayers and Taxes in Early Ptolemaic Thebes (2005). (79-80)
• Munier, Henri, Melanges de litterature copte (1923). (77 und 89)
• Schubart, Wilhelm & Kühn, Ernst, BGU VI: Papyri und Ostraka der Ptolemäerzeit (1922). (no. 1355)
• 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. 11A)

 

DatasetID	3441
last Change	29.07.2022
Berlpap	03441
Trismegistos	3007
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.vleem;;11A
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 3441 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12212), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning; Ruth Duttenhöfer.