Ostr. Berlin P. 12267

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12267
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)	Rubensohn, Otto (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 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	110 mm \| 104 mm \| 10 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Semicircle damage of the surface near the right rim. Surface partly shopworn.
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)	Partly blurred or faded. Damages of the endings of lines Z. 2 - 3.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, without margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	98	0
Column Height (in mm)	194	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	98 x 104	0

Modern Title	account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| receipt
Summary of Content	List of priests and their income. In front of some lines an "OK" sign was added later.
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
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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1a	~~///~~Pa-rṱ sꜣ
1b	~~///~~
2	OK Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr ḥḏ qd 3
3	OK Pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ sꜣ Pꜣ- ḥḏ qd 5
4	Pa-ḫt (sꜣ) Ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrṱ ḥḏ qd 5
5	OK Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-mr-ı͗ḥ (sꜣ) Ns-Ḥr-pꜣ-mtr ḥḏ qd 5
6	OK Ns-Ḥr (sꜣ) Pa-Mn sꜣ ḥḏ qd 5
7	Pa-Mn (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ(?) ꜥrꜥr ḥḏ qd ///

1a	[[///]] Parates, son of ⸢..?..⸣: 1
1b	[[///]]
2	OK Pet⸢..?..⸣pmetis: 3 silver kite.
3	OK Pelaias, son of P..?..: 5 silver kite.
4	Pechytes, (son) of Harpokrates: [_] 5 silver kite.
5	OK Psenpelaias, (son) of Esyrispmetis: 5 silver kite.
6	OK Esyris, (son) of Phaminis, son of ⸢..?..⸣ : 5 silver kite.
7	Phaminis, (son) of Petethotes, son(?) of Arar: ⸢///⸣ silver kite.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12175	man	Esyris, son of Phaminis, son of ⸢..?..⸣	Ns-Ḥr sꜣ Pa-Mn sꜣ ⸢..?..⸣	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	100105
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 100105 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12267), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.