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Ostr. Berlin P. 12938

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12938
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) 54 mm | 56 mm | 5 mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists of three joining fragments. The right side is broken off, but to judge from the outline drawing in the inventory book, the right half was existant during inventarisation. The copy of line 5 in the inventory book shows at the beginning two more signs.
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) The beginnings of all lines are lost today.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd, only the loewr left section remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7(+1?) 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 names
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content List of names, presumably all male, presumbaly slaves.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Hand copy of one line in the inventory book, with some more signs at the beginning as today preserved.
Multilingualism Monolingual Trilingual
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Pngrts 1Only the upper left part of the p-sign is preserved. This name is not attested in LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000. But see for a direct parallel (with different palaeographical features) on Ostr. Pontific. Bibl. Inst without number, edited by VLEEMING, O. Varia, no. 39:3 (beginning 3rd cent BCE, without provenance).
2Trmṱs 2For this name cf. LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 1287, with different writing variants sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-tꜣ-šr.t-ꜣs.t-m-Pꜣ-sge
3s Rsmge 3This presumably Greek name is currently not known to me. Cf. the Greek name Krsmgs on Pap. Cairo CF 30604: LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 1009. mw.t=f(?) Tꜣ-šr.t-Twtw 4For this special cf. the writing on Ostr. Berlin P. 6427 l. x+11: LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch, 1274 no. 44.
4Hysrꜥ 5The reading of this name is not sure, but cf. LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 739 with one Roman attestation). For a further Roman version see P. Dime 3, no. 12, DG 3 and DA 3. (sꜣ) Pꜣ-šr-Lybs 6Cf. the name Λίβυς/, Dem. Lybs, on the Theban Ptolemaic Pap. Berlin P. 3142 and 3146 (all attestations are for the same person): LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000,719. This name is given also as father on Ostr. Oxf. Bodl. Eg.Inschr. 925.
5 Det. sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-re
6
7

1 Only the upper left part of the p-sign is preserved. This name is not attested in LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000. But see for a direct parallel (with different palaeographical features) on Ostr. Pontific. Bibl. Inst without number, edited by VLEEMING, O. Varia, no. 39:3 (beginning 3rd cent BCE, without provenance).
2 For this name cf. LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 1287, with different writing variants
3 This presumably Greek name is currently not known to me. Cf. the Greek name Krsmgs on Pap. Cairo CF 30604: LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 1009.
4 For this special cf. the writing on Ostr. Berlin P. 6427 l. x+11: LÜDDECKENS, Demotisches Namenbuch, 1274 no. 44.
5 The reading of this name is not sure, but cf. LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000, 739 with one Roman attestation). For a further Roman version see P. Dime 3, no. 12, DG 3 and DA 3.
6 Cf. the name Λίβυς/, Dem. Lybs, on the Theban Ptolemaic Pap. Berlin P. 3142 and 3146 (all attestations are for the same person): LÜDDECKENS 1979-2000,719. This name is given also as father on Ostr. Oxf. Bodl. Eg.Inschr. 925.
1Pankrates.
2Thermouthis, son of Psensennesisempsiko.
3..?..es, (son) of Resmege and his mother(?) Sentotoes.
4[I]⸢sa⸣rous., (son) of Psenlibys.
5[///]⸢..?..⸣Det., son of Psenpete..?..re
6[///]
7[///]⸢..?..⸣
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Places (read out from edition)
  • -sge (places.xml#s170)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    12365 man ..?..es, son of Resmege and his mother(?) Sentotoes ..?..s ⸢R⸣sm⸢ge⸣ mw.t=f(?) Tꜣ-šr.t-Twtw (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. Dating by prosopography.;

     

    Pictures

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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 100131
    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 100131 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12938), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.