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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Ostr. Berlin P. 12972 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1969) |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| 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 Type | ostracon |
| Color | pottery, red brown |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 143 mm | 150 mm | 6 mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Consists of 18 joining fragments. Void on the right side of the prserved section. The lower right corner is broken off. |
| Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
| Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Most of line beginnings broken off at about half of the original width. Several damages due to the breaks. Partly faded. Hand drawn facsimile on l. 2 in the inventory book with more text. | |
| 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 margins. On the left side unequal margin due to the different length of the lines. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 13 | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 145 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 140 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 145 x 140 | 0 |
| Modern Title | account |
| Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Account. |
| 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) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | Dating by palaeography.; |
| P_12972_aussen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_12972_innen |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 100129 |
| 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 100129 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12972), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
