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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Berlin P. 12949

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Ostr. Berlin P. 12949
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)	96 mm \| 86 mm \| 7 mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	the lower par tis 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)	Lower part lost in undetermined extent. Partly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text holds a small right and a larger left margin. The upper left crotch remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6+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	account of priests connected with their income
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	List of priests 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

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	Ḥr-ḥtr(?) sꜣ Pa-sny 58 ḥḏ qd 1.t
2	Ḏd-Ḥr-mn (sꜣ) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Bꜣst.t 2.t
3	Pꜣ-bw(?) sꜣ Pa-sny sꜣ Ns-Ḥr 1.t
4	sꜣ Ṯꜣy-Ḥr-pꜣ-ḫpš 4.t
5	Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pa-Ḏḥwtı͗ 2.t
6
7ff.

1	Harathres(?), son of Pasenis: [_] 58 (silver deben) and 1 silver kite.
2	Teosmenis, (son) of Petobastis: [_] 2 (silver deben).
3	Pabou(?), son of Pesenis, son of Esyris: [_] 1 (silver deben).
4	⸢..?..⸣, son of Tjai-Hor-pa-khepesh: [_] 4 (silver deben).
5	Petespmetis, son of Espmetis, son of Pathotes: [_] 2 (silver deben).
6	⸢..?..⸣ [///]
7ff.	[///]

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P_12949_innen

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
20235	man	Harathres(?), son of Pasenis	Ḥr-⸢ḥtr⸣(?) sꜣ Pa-sny	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

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

Pictures

P_12949_aussen

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P_12949_innen

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	100125
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 100125 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12949), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.