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Ostr. Berlin P. 12958 + P. 12967

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12958 + P. 12967
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) 84 mm | 105 mm | 5 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Lower part 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) Lower part broken off in undetermined extent
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Right-aligned text with larger and equal margin on the right side. The upper part of the surface remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 14 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 95 0
Column Height (in mm) 120 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 95 x 120+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of slaves and their delay in payment.
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of mainly female slaves, with amounts of money, representing their delay in payment.
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 Woman Man
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: deliverer of payment - Identifier of woman: none - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man, additionally with his father Identifier of woman: slave (by structure of name)
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1pꜣ wrr 1For the reading wrr contra ḥrr see Quack, J. F. 2002. „Beiträge zum Peripherdemotischen“, in: Bács, T.A. (ed), A Tribute to Excellence. Studies offered in Honor of Ernö Gaál, Ulrich Luft, László Török, Budapest, 393-403, here 397.
2Ta-ꜣs.t-n-pꜣ-/// 2Here a toponym was mentioned.
3Tꜣ-šr.t-Ta-Pꜣ-ı͗hy 3This name is not attested in Lüddeckens 1979-2000, but see his name Ta-Pꜣ-ı͗hy „Tapoïs“, p. 1176 – 7. After the element Pꜣ the scribe made a mistake corrected greasily later. ḥḏ (qd) 10
4Gm- ta Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r-Ns-mt(r) sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp ḥḏ qd10
5Hrı͗=w (sꜣ) sp-2 ḫm ḥḏ (qd) 5
6Ta-H̱nm-tꜣ-bı͗k.t 4I am indebted to S. Lippert, Montpellier, on additions to and comments to the female names.ḥḏ (qd) 15
7Tꜣ-šr.t-n-Ta-H̱nm-tꜣ-nty-ḥs sttr 5.t
8Tꜣ-šr.t-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Sbk (ḥḏ dbn) 7 (ḥḏ) qd 5
9Ta-H̱nm-Ta-H̱nm-ı͗w-ı͗w
10Ggwe (ḥḏ dbn) 7 (ḥḏ) qd 5
11Tꜣ-šr.t-n-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Tyꜥ(.t)-tꜣy=f-nḫt.ṱ 5The names in lines 7 – 9 are not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch. The writing of the name of the female deity Tait is curious, but the structure of the name GN+tꜣy=f-nḫt.ṱ “the god X is his/her power”does not allow other possibilities.
12Tꜣ-šr.t-n-Tꜣ-šr.t-Ḥwṱ (ḥḏ dbn) 7 (ḥḏ) qd 5.t
13Tꜣ-šr.t-n-tꜣ-mꜣy.t-Swn.t 6For the writings of mꜣy.t (here without the determinative) cf. Erichsen 1954, 148 and CDD m, 15 – 16. (ḥḏ dbn) 7 (ḥḏ) qd 5.t
14Tꜣ-sn.t-n

1 For the reading wrr contra ḥrr see Quack, J. F. 2002. „Beiträge zum Peripherdemotischen“, in: Bács, T.A. (ed), A Tribute to Excellence. Studies offered in Honor of Ernö Gaál, Ulrich Luft, László Török, Budapest, 393-403, here 397.
2 Here a toponym was mentioned.
3 This name is not attested in Lüddeckens 1979-2000, but see his name Ta-Pꜣ-ı͗hy „Tapoïs“, p. 1176 – 7. After the element Pꜣ the scribe made a mistake corrected greasily later.
4 I am indebted to S. Lippert, Montpellier, on additions to and comments to the female names.
5 The names in lines 7 – 9 are not attested in the Demotisches Namenbuch. The writing of the name of the female deity Tait is curious, but the structure of the name GN+tꜣy=f-nḫt.ṱ “the god X is his/her power”does not allow other possibilities.
6 For the writings of mꜣy.t (here without the determinative) cf. Erichsen 1954, 148 and CDD m, 15 – 16.
1The delay in payment:
2Taësis-en-pa..?..-⸢///⸣.
3Sentapoïs [] 10 silver kite.
4Komo..?.., daughter of Petosorsmetis, son of Imouthes: 10 silver kite.
5Herieus, (son) of the homonymous, Junior: 5 silver kite.
6Tachnoumistabekis : 15 silver kite.
7Sentachnoumis-ta-neti-hes: 5 stater.
8Senpetesouchos; 7 silver deben, 5 kite.
9Tachnoumis-Tachnoumis-iuiu [///].
10Gegue: 7 silver deben, 5 kite.
11Senpetetaittefnacht.
12Sensenphouti: 7 silver deben, 5 kite.
13Sentmaisunet: 7 silver deben, 5 kite.
14Tsen⸢..?..⸣[///].
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
27625 woman Gegue Ggwe pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Dating by palaeography.;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100126
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Data set citation Data set 100126 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12958 + P. 12967), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.