Ostr. Berlin P. 12909
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Berlin P. 12909 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Comments on Inventory |
registered as existing during revision (1992) |
| 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, red brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) |
208 mm | 119 mm | 9 mm |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Upper right corner broken away, rim partly damaged. Surface darkened. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
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) |
Faded and partly erased. Beginnings of the first two lines mainly lost. |
| Script, Primary |
Late Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Roman Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Wide line pitch.
The text was placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, without lateral margins. On top a small strip was left free. The lower half remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
4 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
94 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
73 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
94 x 73 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
account of deliveries |
| Ancient Archives |
administrative archive of unclear context |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Account of deliveries. Content unclear due to fragmentary condition, mention of a man called Apollonios. |
| 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 |
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| P_12909_aussen_rechts |
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| P_12909_innen |
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| P_12909_aussen_links |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 36435 |
man |
Apollonios (P. 12909) |
ꜣpryns |
Greek, Ancient |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Roman Period |
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-30 BCE 211 CE |
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Pictures
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| P_12909_aussen_mitte |
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| P_12909_aussen_rechts |
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| P_12909_innen |
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| P_12909_aussen_links |
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Literature
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID |
100097 |
| 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 100097 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12909), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
