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Ostr. Berlin P. 12969

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12969
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, grey
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 149 mm | 119 mm | 18 mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, rims abraded.
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) Partly heavily faded.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, with small and equal margins on all sides, geared to the outline shape of the rims.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 16 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 112 0
Column Height (in mm) 137 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 112 x 137 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title List of persons and payments dedicated to dates.
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content List of persons and payments dedicated to day-definite dates. Due to the faded condition, the context cannot be detected
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 Pictures
P_12969_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12969_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37885 man Pachnoumis, son of Petosorsmetis (P 12969) Pa-H̱nm sꜣ I͗y-m-ḥtp pre-Coptic Egyptian
37880 man Petosiris (P 12969) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Wsı͗r pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_12969_aussen
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_12969_innen
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100128
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 100128 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12969), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.