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Ostr. Berlin P. 12910+15855+15857

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12910+15855+15857
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, red brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 75 mm | 56 mm | 8 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists today of three joining pieces, complete presumably until 1945. Two fragments were later registered anew, the very left part, once existing, is still missing. Surface shopworn.
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 blurred. Line endings lost.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text holds a large distance to the right rim.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11[+1] 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 36 0
Column Height (in mm) 71 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 36 x 71 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content List of priests and their income.
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
tꜣ dnı͗.t s n ḥ.t-nṯr
2Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Pꜣ-ḥwṱ sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Ta-Nı͗.t
3Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-Tꜣ-šr.t-Ḥr
4Pꜣ-mꜣy (sꜣ) Pꜣ-
5Pꜣ-šr-Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr 1This name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch, 1979-2000. But from the similar name Pꜣ-šr-Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mn Psensenpeteminis *(Greek Ψενσενπετεμινις) (ibid. 268), the name attested here can be reconstructed as being in Greek *Psensenpeteyris (*Ψενσενπετευρις)
6Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t 2For writings of the element ꜣs.t similar as that for šr.t see Lüddeckens Demotisches Namenbuch, 1979-2000, 807 – 808, nos. 34-60, but all those date rather early. sꜣ
7By-ꜥn
8Pꜣ-šr-
9
10Pa-H̱nm ///
11Pa-H̱nm ///
12 3The existence of this line is only known through the inventory entry mentioning 12 lines. Today this lower passage is lost.

1 This name is not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch, 1979-2000. But from the similar name Pꜣ-šr-Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mn Psensenpeteminis *(Greek Ψενσενπετεμινις) (ibid. 268), the name attested here can be reconstructed as being in Greek *Psensenpeteyris (*Ψενσενπετευρις)
2 For writings of the element ꜣs.t similar as that for šr.t see Lüddeckens Demotisches Namenbuch, 1979-2000, 807 – 808, nos. 34-60, but all those date rather early.
3 The existence of this line is only known through the inventory entry mentioning 12 lines. Today this lower passage is lost.
1The share of the men of the temple.
2Petephaus, son of Psentaneithis ⸢..?..⸣
3Peteese, son of Psensenyris [///].
4Pmois, (son) of P⸢..?..⸣ [///].
5Psensenpeteyris [///].
6Harpaesis, son of [///].
7Bienchis [///].
8Psen⸢..?..⸣ [///].
9⸢..?..⸣ [///].
10Pachnoumis ⸢///⸣ [///].
11Pachnoumis ⸢///⸣ [///].
12[///].
P_12910_aussen
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P_12910_innen
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12215 man Bienchis (P. 12910) By-Ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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P_12910_innen
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100109
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 100109 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12910+15855+15857), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.