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Ostr. Berlin P. 12947

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12947
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) 90 mm | 62 mm | 6 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper and left parts are 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) Beginning broken off in undetermined extent. All line beginnings are lost.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the (preserved) potsherd. On the left side a small and unequal margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 62 0
Column Height (in mm) 90 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 62 x 90 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title account
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Account. Content unclear due to the heavily faded condition of the text.
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_12947_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12947_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_12947_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12947_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100124
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 100124 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12947), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.