Ostr. Berlin P. 12919

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12919
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, light brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	84 mm \| 76 mm \| 6 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper part broken off. At the lower rim a semicircle breakout. Lateral rims damaged,
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)	convexe: Upper part broken off, presumably not more than one line. Lasts line due to surface damage partly damaged. concave: All line beginnings damaged. Faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, on both sides.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	6
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	76	76
Column Height (in mm)	84	x+75
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	76 x x+84	76 x x+75

Text Content

Modern Title	List of payments
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	List of persons connected with money payment, also a cow is part of the transactions.
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

convex

x+1
x+2	wḏꜣ.t=f(?) ꜥn ẖr ¹For ı͗n ẖr as „paying for“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 386. šr=k ı͗ḥ wꜥ
x+3	r-ḏr.t Ns-mt(r) pꜣ ꜥꜣ pꜣ nf
x+4	r-ḏr.t Pꜣ-f sꜣ Pꜣ-lgns ²For this name not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch, see the name in Ostr. London BM EA 12174:x+3, where a certain Ṯꜣy-lgne is mentioned. For lgns „jug, flask“ coming from the Greek λάγυνος“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 265 und CDD L, 21 – 22.
x+5	ḥḏ dbn 20 sttr 1
x+6	r-ḏr.t Ḥr-pa-n-ꜣs.t ḥḏ dbn?
x+7	ẖr Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r ///
x+8	///

¹ For ı͗n ẖr as „paying for“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 386.
² For this name not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch, see the name in Ostr. London BM EA 12174:x+3, where a certain Ṯꜣy-lgne is mentioned. For lgns „jug, flask“ coming from the Greek λάγυνος“ cf. ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 265 und CDD L, 21 – 22.

concave

cc 1	ḏg pꜣ n
cc 2	ws
cc 3	⅙ .
cc 4
cc 5
cc 6

x+1	⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+2	His rest again for his son: One cow.
x+3	From Espmetis Senior, the skipper: [///]
x+4	From Pef..?.., son of Palegnes: [///].
x+5	(Total:) 20 silver deben (and) 1 stater.
x+6	From Harpaesis: [///] silver deben.
x+7	For Petosiris: ⸢///⸣.
x+8	⸢..?..⸣[///]⸢///⸣
cc 1	[///]..?..
cc 2	[///] ..?..
cc 3	[///]⸢..?..⸣ ⅙ ..?..
cc 4	[///]⸢..?..⸣
cc 5	[///]⸢..?..⸣
cc 6	[///]⸢..?..⸣

P_12919_aussen

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P_12919_innen

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
25220	man	Espmetis Senior (P. 12919)	Ns-mt(r) pꜣ ꜥꜣ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 50 CE	Dating by palaeography;

Pictures

P_12919_aussen

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P_12919_innen

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100108
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 100108 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12919), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.