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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
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 Pictures
1
2
3Det. Ta-šr(.t)-Qrr
4Pꜣ-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
5mwns sttr
6 dnı͗.t Pꜣ-pws
horizontal stroke
7nꜣ ı͗rp.w 2I am indebted for the reading of this part to the participiants of the Demotic Summer School 2018 in München. n ꜣmwns
8ı͗bd 1 šmw sw 26 1.t
9ı͗bd 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 [///]
4Pepes: [_] [///] stater.
5Ammonios: [_] [///] stater.
6⸢..?..⸣ share of Pepes [///]
horizontal stroke
7The wine jars of Ammonios:
826th of Pachons: 1.
98th 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.