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Ostr. Berlin P. 12962

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12962
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) 90 mm | 104 mm | 5 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) First line nearly completely lost.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper left quarter of the surface of the potsherd.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 72 0
Column Height (in mm) 37 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 72 x 37 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of male names in unclear context.
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
Summary of Content List of male names.
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
x+1 ⸢..?..⸣ [///]
x+2 ..?.. Pete..?.. [_] ..?.. [///]
x+3 Petosors(?)metis, [_] son of Psen⸢..?..⸣[///].
x+4 ..?.. Peteportis, son od Pelaias.
x+5 Peteyris, (son) of Thyte.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31035 man Pete..?.. (P 12962) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-..?.. (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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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100132
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 100132 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12962), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.