Ostr. Berlin P. 12944

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12944
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	registered as existing during revision (1963)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication assigned

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 Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, medium brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	159 mm \| 104 mm \| 70 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	The lower right corner is broken off. Surface heavily abraded.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex/concave
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Convex: Heavily faded. Concave: The lower part of the text is broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Convex: Wide line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral and broad upper and lower margins. Concave: Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins. The upper left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8	7
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| account documentary \| list
Summary of Content	List of persons 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

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

convex

1-8	(Name list)

concave

1-8	⸢..?..⸣
cc 1	..?.., son of Pa⸢///⸣ [_]: 37 (silver deben).
cc 2	Mesore [_]: 30 (silver deben) ⸢/// ⸣
cc 3	..?.. [_] yields 34 (silver deben)
cc 4	113½ obol ..?..
cc 5	OK Espmetis, son of ..?.. [_]: 30 (silver deben).
cc 6	OK Imouthes son of Espmetis [_]: 24 (silver deben).
cc 7	OK Kales, son of Etes [_]: 10 (silver deben).
cc 8	[///]⸢..?..⸣[///]: 20 (silver deben).

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
29425	man	..?.., son of Pa-⸢///⸣	..?.. sꜣ Pa-⸢///⸣	(not identified)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	Dating by palaeography.;

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DatasetID	100123
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 100123 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12944), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.