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Ostr. Berlin P. 12933

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12933
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) 88 mm | 74 mm | 8 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The left part is broken off in undetermined extent.
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) Partly faded. Most line endings broken off.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral and upper margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 0
Column Height (in mm) 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of male names (Greek and Egyptian)
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of men bearing Greek and Egyptian names, with filiations.
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
1Euboulos, son of Chairemon.
2Pachois, son of Harpaesis.
3Ammonios, (son) of Gellit⸢..?..⸣.
4Patous, son of Portis.
5Apollonios, son of Charan[///].
6Psennesis, son of Apoll⸢..?..⸣[///].
7P..?.., son of Ar⸢///⸣[///].
8Cha..?..os [///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
12315 man Ammonios, son of Gellit⸢..?..⸣ Ꜣm{m}ns sꜣ Gllyt⸢..?..⸣ Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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P_12933_innen
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100117
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 100117 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12933), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.