Ostr. Berlin P. 12943

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12943
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 \| 60 mm \| 5 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper right corner broken off. 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)	Beginnings of the first four lines and endings off all lines broken off. The lower part seems to be lost in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with a small but equal margin on the right side, geared to the bended outline shape of the rim. Betwnn lines 5 and 6 a continuous horizontal stroke separats the two texts.
	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 slaves connected with payment
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account documentary \| list
Summary of Content	List of slaves, one female, connected with payment. Together with account regarding wine jars
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 Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: beneficiary / deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: unclear

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1
2
3	Det. Ta-šr(.t)-Qrr
4	Pꜣ-pws ¹This name is not known to me elsewhere. Cf. the name Ppws/Pps asttested six times in late Ptolemaic texts: www. trismegistor.org/name/20802. sttr
5	ꜣmwns sttr
6	dnı͗.t Pꜣ-pws
	horizontal stroke
7	nꜣ ı͗rp.w ²I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München. n ꜣmwns
8	ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 26 1.t
9	ı͗bd 2 šmw sw 8 4.t

¹ This name is not known to me elsewhere. Cf. the name Ppws/Pps asttested six times in late Ptolemaic texts: www. trismegistor.org/name/20802.
² I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München.

1	[///]⸢..?..⸣ [///]
2	[///]⸢..?..⸣ [///]
3	[///]Det. Senkrouris [///]
4	Pepes: [_] [///] stater.
5	Ammonios: [_] [///] stater.
6	⸢..?..⸣ share of Pepes [///]
	horizontal stroke
7	The wine jars of Ammonios:
8	26th of Pachons: 1.
9	8th of Payni: 4.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
23065	man	Ammonios (P. 12943)	ꜣmwns	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

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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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100122
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 100122 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12943), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.