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Ostr. Berlin P. 12936

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12936
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, medium brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 68 mm | 88 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lowe left corner is broken off.
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. Endings of lines 7+x broken off.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a very broad right margin. On top a small strip remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+y 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 priests on-duty
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names of priests on-duty in the temple, presumably the Chnoum temple.
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
1Wn-nfr (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḥm-nṯr-H̱nm 1Such a name exists once (Lüddeckens 1979-2000, Korrekturen 176. The possibility of a title should not be neglected here, but otherwise no titles were given here so this would be not my first choice.
2Pa-H̱nm (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗y-m-ḥtp
3Pa-H̱nm (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-H̱nm (pꜣ) ḫm
4Pꜣ-ḥm-nṯr- (sꜣ) (pꜣ) ḫm
5Nḏm-ꜥnḫ 2Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 694 lists only one further example of this name, given on a Roman mummy label.
6Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mtr sꜣ Pa-H̱nm
7Pa-H̱nm sꜣ
8ff.

1 Such a name exists once (Lüddeckens 1979-2000, Korrekturen 176. The possibility of a title should not be neglected here, but otherwise no titles were given here so this would be not my first choice.
2 Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000), 694 lists only one further example of this name, given on a Roman mummy label.
1Onnophris, (son) of Pahementjerchnoumis.
2Pachnoumis, (son) of Peteimouthes.
3Pachnoumis, (son) of Petechnoumis Junior.
4Pahemnetjer, (son) of ⸢..?..⸣ Junior.
5Nedjemenchis.
6Petosorsmetis, son of Pachnoumis.
7Pachnoumis, [son of NN].
8ff.[///]
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
25260 man Nedjemenchis Nḏm-ꜥnḫ 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

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100118
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 100118 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12936), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.