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Ostr. Berlin P. 12934

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12934
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 District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (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 1907 and 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, grey
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 98 mm | 100 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper right corner is broken off.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex/concave
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Partly faded. All line beginnings (convex) resp. endings (concave) are broken off.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Convex: Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a small upper margin. Concave: The one line is placed onto the lower third of the surface of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title account in letter form
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Account. Content unclear due to the heavily faded condition of the text.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Hand copy of one line in the inventory book.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
cc1Teos ..?.. son of Psenpachois [///]
P_12934_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12934_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
3560 (unknown) (Unknown [lost]) (Unknown [lost]) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty or Roman Period -332 BCE 211 CE ;

 

Pictures

P_12934_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12934_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100077
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100077 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12934), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic).