Ostr. Berlin P. 12953

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12953
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)	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 Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	83 mm \| 148 mm \| 7 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper right and lower left corners are broken off.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Beginning of the first and ending of the last line lost.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Broad right margin. The very left part of the surface of the potsherd as well as the lower right crotch remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)		0
Column Height (in mm)		0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance		0

Modern Title	account of deliveries
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	Account concerning the delivery of something in lagynos jugs, and natron, with amounts of money
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

Transcription

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1	lgns 89 [_] ḥḏ-sp-2 14 ¹For a similar writing of this number cf. Nur el-Din, O. Leiden Dem. (1974), 467 sub “14”. sttr 1 20.t (ḥḏ dbn) 26 ḥḏ qd 1
2	[_] sttr 14
3	wṱ [_] sttr 300
4	ḥsmn ꜥꜣ [_] sttr 12.t
5	r nꜣy ḥḏ-sp-2 20 sttr 20.t (ḥḏ dbn) 20½ ḥḏ qd 1

¹ For a similar writing of this number cf. Nur el-Din, O. Leiden Dem. (1974), 467 sub “14”.

1	89 lagynos jars: [_] silver money: 14, 20 stater, 26 deben, 1 kite.
2	..?..: [_] 14 stater.
3	Surplus: [_] 300 stater.
4	Large (quantity?) of Natron: [_] 12 stater.
5	Total of these: 20 silver money, 20 stater, 20½ deben, 1 kite.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8060	not applicable	(No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text)	(No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text)	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	100099
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 100099 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12953), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.