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Ostr. Berlin P. 12961

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12961
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory registered as existing during revision (1963)
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

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, medium brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 74 mm | 85 mm | 7 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper left corner is 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) Endings of the first three lines lost.
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, without upper and lower marigns, but a broad and unequal right margin.
  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 persons 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 persons 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 Man
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.
2Pa-H̱nm (sꜣ) Pꜣ-
3Pꜣ-šr-n-Twme 2Cf. Pꜣ-ꜥ.wy-Twmy[///] as a variant for Pꜣ-ꜥ.wy-Tmstws, a gods name “the place of Themistos” regarding a settlement in the Arsinoite nome of the Fayum (CDD p, 12).
4Sꜥrꜥpꜥmwn 3A demotic version of this name is currently not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). This is an primarily Egyptian name which is used in Graecized version as Σαραπάμμον and as sarapammo/sarapmM etc. (www.trismegistos.org/name7971) In the current version, this Greek version was retransliterated alphabetically into Demotic again.
5Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t (pꜣ) šr Pꜣ-šr.t-n-Pa-///
6Gm=w-rn=f (sꜣ) Ns-
7Gm=w-rn=f (sꜣ) Ns-
8 pꜣ šr Pꜣ-šr.t-n-Tꜣ-šr.t-
9

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 Cf. Pꜣ-ꜥ.wy-Twmy[///] as a variant for Pꜣ-ꜥ.wy-Tmstws, a gods name “the place of Themistos” regarding a settlement in the Arsinoite nome of the Fayum (CDD p, 12).
3 A demotic version of this name is currently not attested in Lüddeckens, Demotisches Namenbuch (1979-2000). This is an primarily Egyptian name which is used in Graecized version as Σαραπάμμον and as sarapammo/sarapmM etc. (www.trismegistos.org/name7971) In the current version, this Greek version was retransliterated alphabetically into Demotic again.
1The delay in payment:
2Pachnoumis, (son) of Pa⸢..?..⸣ [///]
3Psentoume⸢..?..⸣ [///]
4Sarapammon ⸢..?..⸣
5Harpaesis, son of Psenpa⸢///⸣
6Komorenef, (son) of Es..?..⸢..?..⸣
7Komorenef, (son) of Es..?..⸢..?..⸣
8..?.., the son of Psensen[///].
9[///]⸢….⸣[///]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
26170 man ..?.., the son of Psensen[///] ..?.. pꜣ šr Pꜣ-šr.t-n-Tꜣ-šr.t-[///] (not identified)

 

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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P_12961_innen
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100127
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 100127 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12961), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.